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Notes
air do’n gheaZaich: air represents iar, after, as in hha
e air a mharbhadh, lit. “ lie was after his killing.”
a ihaobh nan ditean: for do thaobh, which occurs in
p. 9.
an uair a bheachdaicheas: b eachdaicheas is itself the
relative form of the verb, and strictly requires no a
(do) before it to express relativity. The a has been
introduced by analogy. So, an Ti (a) charnas,
p. 14.
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as geire tuigse -. “ who is,” etc.; 3 sg. pr. ind., relative
form.
cha mheasa chomas: supply a, “ his,” before chomas.
ann am briathraibh \ the ” reduplicated ” form of the
preposition an, ann, is seldom, if ever, necessary.
Here, for instance, am briathraibh would be
equally adequate.
theirteadh : “it was wont to be said.”
ar learn : “ methinks.” O.Ir, inda (da, ata) limm;
Mid. Ir. indar, dar, atar limm; Mod. Ir. dar Horn,
tha bhuil: lit. “ there is its effect ” ; i.e., “ the effect is
seen ” ; supply a, “ its.”
mar gw’m b’eadh: “as it were ”; eadh, O.Ir. ed, the
old 3 per. pron. sing, neut., survives only in certain
phrases: is eadh, ’s eadh, it is (so) ; yes; cha’n
eadh, it is not (so) ; no; an eadh ? is it so ? would
you really? mar gu’m b’eadh, as if.
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cho sgaiteach ’s as urrainn: read is for as; ’s stands for
agus.
sdr-bhdird: sdr, excellent, always before its noun; so
deagh, good; droch, bad. Some other adjectives,
but only monosyllables, may be prefixed, of which
sean is the commonest. All prefixed adjectives
aspirate the noun qualified, if it admits of aspira¬
tion.
a bha dearbhadh . . . supply ag; after the verbal
noun dearbhadh we should have had gen. fiugh-
antais, were it not that the gen. birlinne depends
on ' 'ihantas itself. Such is the custom of modern