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Some pollysyllables in -ar are apt to make the plural in contracted
-n'ltr'iii : Idihhàr, m. and f., book, pi. Imhhrnirhenn .-but hriathar^
word, pi. hrinthnni.
II. — Weak I )kclen>;u)X.
Nouns ending in a vowl'I, in -chrJ, and in -air, denoting-
agents or instruments, are of the Weak Declension. They are
of either u-ender.
InJ.
Siiiuuhir.
Nom. gille
Gen. gille
Dat. gille
Voc. a ghille
usuallv an inserted
■h, til,
Plural.
gillean
ghillcan
gillean
a ghillean
iv, between the final vowel
There
unci the -un of the plural. In words having liquids before their final
vowel a t is inserted in a few cases. When the last vowel of the root
is slender the tendency is to flank the inserted ch with broad vowels,
and vice nrsa : thus hùta, hàtaichean ; hìiadhtia, bliadhnnichean ;
rrldhe, rri<lh<:achaii.
1. Words
2. Words in
Words in o, ò.
Words in chd -.
'i. Words in air {fir, oir)
III. — Mjxeij Declension.
In this declension the singular is Strong, or has inflections
as the Strong Declension has, while the plural is Weak, and
ends in broad n.
1. The Feminine Broad Declension.
Feminine noun.s whose vowel or digraph, if mond.syllahic, i*
broad, or whose final vowel or digraph is broad, are thus
declined : —