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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beurla f. English
comhairle f. counsel
earlachadh m. preparation of food
fairtlich, fàillich baffle
mèirle f. theft
òirleach f. inch
ùrlar m. floor, unnlar (McA.)
Add the proper name Mac Calphuim Mac Alpine § 111
-r- is sometimes epenthetic : —
bratàlHon battalion (D.Ban 392, 13 C)
briosgaid f. biscuit
gus na phrill iad — to which they returned : — Gillies 260
grath-muinge, gath-muinge m. mane
mulardach, muladach sorrowful
mùrla coat of mail, sgrud, sgùd, cluster : — Claig. 106
trog lift, Manx troggal, but of. tog § 184, 36
§65. THE PARASITIC OR (IN SANSCRIT) THE
SVARABHAKTI VOWEL.
{i.e., The "Voice-attachment," "vowel-portion," or ghde vowel).
Svarabhakti is the development in the spoken language of
a non-radical or inorganic vowel from the voiced sound of the
preceding consonant, resulting in a repetition of the preceding
vowel.
Tulach gorm m. Green hill, is in Scottish C.S. spoken and
written as TuUochgorum (more correctly Tullochgorom) .
The Svarabhakti or glide vowel occurs —
I. Between words, i.e. in Sandhi or composition external
to the word ; and
II. Between letters of the word, i.e., internal.
I. External Svarabhakti —
an-a-lasda insipid ban-a-mhaighstir f. mistress
an-a-moch late aon-a-chat deug eleventh cat
an-a-ceart unjust àr-amach battlefield : àr + magh
an-a-ghràdhach doting ball-a-gheal white topped
cach-a-leth, cachliath, cachaileth f. swing-gate: — F.C. 319
ceanna-bhaile m. chief town:- — Arabl.66y.