Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1801 to 1840 > Tiomnadh Nuadh ar Tighearna agus ar Slanuighir Iosa Criosd

e&r. But wherever the order of eonstruction requires that the mutable con-
sonants should bc aspirated, the immutable lose their double sound, and are
pronounced nearly as in English. Thus, the initial letters of the adjectives
mòr great, and luath swift, when joined with femirtinesubstantivesintheno-
minative singular, must be sounded like v and l in English ; as beinn mhòr
(vòr) a great mountain, ces luath a swift foot. But with masculine substan-
tives they retain their primitive sound, as fear mòr a great man, eù luath
(Uuath ) a swift dog.
When the consanants l, n, r, have their double sound in the middleorend
©f words, they aie written double, as in gall a foreigner, fcarr better.