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ETYMOLOGY.
FOCLACHADH. 39
Thus when we use the noun “ day,” the term is indefinite, be¬
cause we do not express what sort of a day it is; but when we
say cold day, hot day, dry day, wet day, Sfc. we express four qua¬
lities of the noun day, by the adjectives cold, hot, dry, wet.
Adjectives, in English, are
turned into nouns, by adding
ness, as, coldness, hotness, dry¬
ness, wetness, and the like.
Such nouns as these are called
Adjectival or Abstract nouns.
Some nouns are used as ad¬
jectives, as yoM-ring, silver-
box, peat-moss, coal-pit.*
Some nouns are used both as
nouns and adjectives, as Chris¬
tian, divine, good, evil, cold,
original.
4. The Pronoun. •— A
Pronoun is a word used in¬
stead of a noun, to repeat
the idea, as John reads his
book, but he abuses it not.
5. The Verb.—A Verb
is a word which affirms wbat
is said of persons and things;
as, I am, he folded, we are
struck.
Tha buadharan ’sa Bheurla iar
an deanamh 'nan ainmearan, le
ness, a chur riu, (fuairead,
teothad, tiormachd, fliuichead,')
agus an leithid sin. Theirear
ainmearan Buadhal no Sgairte
riu so.
Gnathaichear beagan ainm¬
earan mar bhuadharan-fainn’-
oir, bosi-airgid, blar-moine,
toll-y«at7.*
Gnathaichear beagan ainm¬
earan araon mar ainmearan, agus
mar bhuadharan,—Criosduidh,u
naomh, math, ole, fuair,11
priomh.
4. An Riochdar.—Is e
Riochdar focal a chuirear
an ait ainmeir, a riochdach-
adh an ainm; mar, leugh-
aidh Iain a leabhar, ach cha
mhill se i.
5. An Gniomhar.-—Is e
gniomhar focal a thanochd-
adh ciod a theirear mu
phearsaibh agus nithibh ;
mar, tha mi, phaisg e, tha
sinn buailte.
The subject or nominative is either a noun or pronoun of which
the verb speaks. The verb may justly be called the life or essence
of the sentence, for without it nothing can be affirmed or said of
any person or thing. For instance : The horse a noble animal,
he on grass, a coach or cart, no reason, and his
body to the earth. Nothing is here affirmed of the horse,
(the subject); but use, in the blanks, the verbs is, lives, draws,
has, returns, in their order, and see what the sense will be then.
* Such nouns as these are commonly caliei compound nouns in both languages.