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GAELIC GRAMMAR. 25
The form of the Possessive Adjective is often shortened
and altered, but the ear is the guide to this, and practice in
reading and writing is the way to learn it — not by rules.
Mo and Do when followed by a vowel lose the o, as
m'athair, m'onair, d'ardach, d'oran.
When Ann precedes Mo and Do it causes a transposition
and a change of vowel, thus : ann mo chluais becomes aim
am chluais, and further an elision occurs of the nn of ann
and of the a following, So ann am chluais becomes am
chluais. Do also goes through similar changes ; ann do
chridhe becomes ann ad chridhe, and by elision ad chridhe.
The perplexing use of the comma to indicate elision is to
be avoided in such cases; a'm chluais, a'/Ti' chluais, a'd
chridhe, a' d' chridhe, are useless and therefore wrong.
Exercise XIV.
Treat like the last Exercise.
Mo chas. A cas (f.). A chas (m.). Do chas. A
lamh. A clieann. A ceaun. A mac. A mhac.
Do lamlisa. Air mo laimh-sa. Aig ar tigh-ne. Aig
bliur tigh-sa. Air ur crann-sa. Na ur laimh. Bidh
tu-sa agus mi-se air an ceann-san. Am fac thu
m' ad. Tha cuilleag am aid. Leig d' anail. Bha e
am laimh. Chaidh smuirn am shuil. Tha am bata
-''m laimh. Am bheil thu ad eigin. Tha mi am
chabhaig. Bha e na laimh-san, agus na laimh-se.
The Relative Pronouns are as follows : —
A, who which. Am fear a thuit, the man ivho fell.
Nach, ivho not. Am fear nach do thuit, 7na)b who fell
not.
Na, that which. Chuala mi na thuirt e, / heard^
tohat (that ichlch) he said.
The Interrogative Pronouns are : —
Co, ivho. Co e, ivho (is) he 1
Cia, which. Cia e, which (is) he 1
Ciod, what. Ciod e, what (is) it ?
The classes of Indefinite and Compound Pronouns which
are given by all Gaelic Grammars I do away with entirely.