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q6 Glossarial Index.
rigueur s. rigour 12.
Eoc n. pr. Roche 38.
roeanez s.f. queen 46 47. rouanez a.f. queen 53, fern, of xoum=régen-
tem.
roentelez s.f. kingdom 2. rouantelez 58.
rogationou s. the rogations 53.
Rorn n. loci Rome 33.
rosen s. f. a rose 46. W. rhosyn.
roue s.m. king 2, 8, 43.
s, the simple dental spirant, is always lost in auslaut. In anlaut it
regularly becomes the guttural spirant h (v. supra p. 80). But it remains
in a feto genuine Breton words, such as sae robe, seiz seven, sellet to see. In
the combination sv the s also became h and subsequently c'h. In the
combination sc the spirant often remains intact : thus scaff light, scoaz
shoulder, Skr. sTcandha, squeiaff to cut, (o-)k£. iw, Lat. scio, Skr. chhyami,
squeut shadoio, Jr. scdth. But it sometimes drops, as in queuz
= ((tktjSos Fick 3 i. 805.) The combination cs becomes in native
words c'h, as in huech = sex, but in loanwords it becomes either
sc (iaMsq^laxus) or s, as in flus flux, es-freizaff exfrigidare, lisiu
lixivium, bisest bisextus. In the combination st both letters are
sometimes preserved intact, as in staffn palate {Zend ctaman), stautet
mingere (to stale), sterenn star, struyafE (to sneeze). But sometimes
s assimilates t (sevell to arise, root stam , serch concubine, cf. aropy)),
soez stupidus), and sometimes t assimilates s, as in nezz nest ex *neth,
*netia, trout goad, urdeutsch *brosda, yot ' boullie,' Skr. yüsha, Lat.
jus, quet ' bit' Lat. ce(s)-na : sometimes in inlaut both s and t are lost
as in caer, Ir. cathair castrum, hoer Ir. sethar sister, and perhaps
creuuenn crusta, and sometimes the t becomes c, as in guise vestis and ascorn
outeov. In the combination sp the s has changed p to f and then dropi off.
In the combinations sn, si, sm the s has gone leaving no trace. Thus
nadoez needle, Ir. sndthat, neudenn thread, Ir. snâthe, neuf to swim,
Ir. snâm, nezaff nere (a)v{]du), nezenn nit, Ir. sned, lazaff to slay, Ir.
slaide, lenquemenn maw-worm (root slak ' schleichen Fick 2 552), loncafE
glutire, Ir. slucaim, menauet awl o-fiivvi], moguet smoke a^v^w, for
ffjj,vK(o. Iii inlaut s disappears between vowels : louenn louse, teuel root
Tus. In sclear Fr. clair, sclacc Fr. glace the s is prosthetic. In esgal
Fr. e'gal, and prosn Fr. prone the s is a ' stummes zeichen.' In loan-
words s is sometimes written c (as in cim simia), cc, cs or cz.
sabbath s. 10.
sacramant s. m. 51, 57, pL sacramentou 7, 49, gen. pi. seiz sacramant
51. W. sacrafen (Richards),
sacrileg s. m. sacrilege 50.
sadorn, sadourn s. m. (dies) Saturni, Saturday 25, 40. W. Sadurn.