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614 GAELIC IRREGULAR VERBS.
The past tense, Assertive — dependent, is the same as the inde-
pendent tense : Gum hu mhor — That it was great. The Existential
Past, independent, is hha (was), Old Irish h6i, hcU, hui, from a
Celtic perfect Imbove, root hhu (be) ; its dependent form is rohk
for ro-ba, 0. Ir. ?^obe. The future independent bit/iidh or bidh is
the 0. Ir. present biid or bith, standing for a pre-Celtic bhv-ije-ti^
bleti, from the root b/ni, Lat. fio, from Aryan bhv-iju, Eng. be.
The dependent future is sim^^le bi, 0. Ir. hii, b'l. There is no
change for assertive or existential statements. The infinitive bhi,
Irish beith, is confused with bith (existence), from the root (/ei, yi^
Lat. vita, Gaelic beo, Gr. bios.
The past tense, Assertive — dependent, is the same as the inde-
pendent tense : Gum hu mhor — That it was great. The Existential
Past, independent, is hha (was), Old Irish h6i, hcU, hui, from a
Celtic perfect Imbove, root hhu (be) ; its dependent form is rohk
for ro-ba, 0. Ir. ?^obe. The future independent bit/iidh or bidh is
the 0. Ir. present biid or bith, standing for a pre-Celtic bhv-ije-ti^
bleti, from the root b/ni, Lat. fio, from Aryan bhv-iju, Eng. be.
The dependent future is sim^^le bi, 0. Ir. hii, b'l. There is no
change for assertive or existential statements. The infinitive bhi,
Irish beith, is confused with bith (existence), from the root (/ei, yi^
Lat. vita, Gaelic beo, Gr. bios.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Reliquiae Celticae > Volume 2 > (628) |
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| Description | Vol. II. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.288 |
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| Description | Texts, papers, and studies in Gaelic literature and philology left by the late Rev. Alexander Cameron, LL.D. / edited by Alexander Macbain and John Kennedy. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.287-288 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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