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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neach air an robh am pairilis — one who had paralysis : —
Mk. ii. 3
Nach fan thu as an eucoir — Will you not stay from
wrong ? :■ — Ross 76
trom air an òl — heavy on drink : — C.S.
12. with names expressing customs :
Ag gearradh nan sùrdag — Cutting capers : — Clar. 92
§91. THE ADJECTIVE.
Adjectives are of two genders, mas. and fem. The plural
is without distinction of gender or case. Mas. -o- and -u- stems
are declined in the singular like nouns of the I. Decl. ; fem. -à-
stems like nouns of II. Decl. The plural is formed by adding -a
or -e to the nom. sing., e.g. beag small, pi. beaga; coir just, pi. còire.
-io-, -ia- stems are indeclinable except that in some, e.g. fiadhaich
ze)ild, inich neat, the g.s.f. may have the slender increase, which
appears also in the first comparative, -i- stems, e.g. coir just,
are indeclinable in the sing. mas. ; and in the gen. sing. fem.
they have the slender increase, as in the comparative, -u- stems,
e.g. dubh black, being declined like -o- stems, have in the compara-
tive the slender increase of the gen. sing. fem.
Briefly : in the pi. broad monosyUabic stems have the broad
increase :
Slender monosyllabic stems have the slender (or g.s.f.) in-
crease.
The pi. of polysyllables is the same as the sing.
§92.