Matheson Collection > Gaelic grammar, containing the parts of speech and the general principles of phonology and etymology, with a chapter on proper and place names

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dail- dale dàil meeting torr- hilt
druim- back, ridge tulaich- knoll
Dun- eideann — Edinburgh
Roinn-Liothunn — Point of Lyon : — S.O. 45^7
2. The honorific prefixes mo my ; do, t' thy are unstressed,
unless by elision they coalesce with the proper name : —
cill-mo-Chalmaig — Kilmachalmaig
cill-mo-(^dan)- Aodan — Kilmodan. §112, 3;
§121, 1, 2
3. maol tonsured, bald : O.G. mael
maol when unstressed is often confused with mo, but the
former is more liable to initial aspiration :
Cill-maoil-rubha Kilvary (MucCairn).
Through aspiration, assimilation, and loss of stress maol
is occasionally reduced to -a-, -o- :
Cill-maoil-rubha — Killarrow (Islay) .
4. suidhe — seat or locus of a saint :
Suidh(e) -Bhlain (Kilblane)
-Cathan (Bute)
-Donnain (Kildonain)
-Ghuirmein (Glenmoriston)
-Innen (Kilwinning)
-Maree (Applecross) <euwVT<i.v.o.^o
-Mhercheird =Mhaoil-Erchaird (Glenurchart).
5. Suidhe + maol- :
Seemirookie : St. Roque (Dundee), cf. St. Rollox, Glasgow
Simon Rollock's kirk (Boroughmuir) : id.
Simmer-lu-ag (Clova) : Lu-gaid §112, 6
Summer-eve (suidhe-maoil-rubha)
6. alseag m. ferry, Aiseag-ma-Rui (Skye)
Cil-maol-rubha — Kilmaree (Loch Slapin)
tobar m. well, tobar-maol-rubha,Tobar-ma-Rui (Skye).
§8. ASSIMILATION.
When two or more consonants come together, the tendency |
to ease in pronunciation causes a change in one or more of the |
consonants so that they either approximate to, or become
identical with, one another.