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not abstract conditions, but very real bur-
dens — burdens laid iipon him, which he
had, in a very literal sense, to undergo, or
carry. Similarly also joy and deliverance
came tipon him, as very real blessings,
literally conferred by some benign fate or
fairy. And thus, as in the Celtic tongue
a man's relations to his material property,
and to things immaterial, yet his by option
and voluntary control, or at least by con-
sent, are expressed by aig, at ; so the re-
lations to men of their involuntary mental
and bodily affections are expressed by air,
on. Examples of this idiom might be
multiplied indefinitely : tha a bJurac orm
(air mi) = I have the smallpox = is the
smallpox on me ; bha fuacJid ort (air tu) =
thou wert a-cold = was cold on thee ; thamig
sgios air (air e) = he was a-weary = came
weariness on him ; ika aoibhneas oirre (air i)
= she is glad = is gladness on her ; thainig
saorsa air Seunias = ]2iTi\^^ was delivered
= came deliverance on James. Sometimes
the 21SMS loqucndi in regard to this idiom
outruns the strict limits of my definition ;