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GRAMMATICAL VOCABULARY.
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f METONYMY, changing a
name, (mcta, and oiiurna a
name, See Fig. 4)
MODIFY, to change the mean,
ing or form of a word, {modus,
order, and fy, make)
MOOD, or mode, order or man¬
ner of a verb
NEGATIVE, no, denying
NEUTER, implying no sex, ex¬
pressing neither action nor pas¬
sion, neuter, neither)
NOMINATIVE, naming, sub¬
ject, (tigmen, a name)
NOTE, mark, notice, observe
NOUN, substantive, name of any
object, (nomen)
NUMERAL, consisting of num¬
ber, (numero, to number)
OBJECTIVE, accusative, the
case in which a noun or pro¬
noun is put by an active verb
or preposition, (ob, for, and
jrtus, thrown)
ORDINAL, counted in their
order ; as, first, second, third,
&c.
fORTHOGRAPHY, true writ¬
ing, or forming letters into
words, (orthos, true, and
graphe, writing)
■fPARAGOGE, lengthening,fpa-
rago, to prolong)
PARTICIPLE, partaking of,
(pars, a part, and capio, totake)
PASSIVE, suffering under the
verbal action, (passus, having
suffered)
PAST, preterite, gone, time past
or gone, (passer, fr. to pass,
to go over)
PERFECT, complete, within a
period of time not yet fully
past, (perfectus, finished) ; as,
I have seen him to-day
-(- Metonimi, b. rnuth ainme,
(nieta. muth agus onoma, ainm
Faic Fig. 4)
Atharraich, mi\th staid, no
seadh focail, ftilh. rist, agus
caraich, tionndaidh)
Modh, doigii, no gleus gniomh-
air
Dun.TACH, cha, aicheadh, obadh,
(diu/t, db)
Neotair, gun ghineil, nach ’eil a'
nochdadh aon chuid, gniomh’
no fulaing, (neo, ni h-eadh,
agus year, aon)
Ainmeach, ainmeachadh, ciiisear,
(ainm, gairm)
NoDj comhar, aire, beachdaich
Ainmear, fr. ainm cuspair sam
bith, (ainm, gairm, agus /ear
aon)
Cunntach, co-sheasamh ’an air-
- eimh, (ciinnt, aireamh
CusPAHACH,an car aims an cuirear
ainmear,no riochdar legniomh-
arasdolach, no roimhear,(cusp-
air ni, no neach)
Ordail, air an cimntadh ’nan
drdugh; mar, a’ cheud, an
dara, an treas, &ce.
Litirkaciiadh, /h cur litrichean
gu focail, ceart chubadh fhocal,
(Mir, ball-focail)
Paragoge, ft. meudachadh,
(parago, cuir am’ fad)
Pairtear,/;-. pairt-fhocal(/7d;rt,
roinn, agxxsfcar, aon)
Fulangach, a’ fulang, no a’
giidan gniomha ghniomharail,
{fulling, giiilain)
Seachadail, iar dol seachad,
an trath bha, (seachad, thairis,
agus ail, mar)
Lan, lionte, an taobh a stigh do
chuairt iiine nach ’eil fathast
iar kin-dol seachad ; mar, Tha‘
mi iar ’fhaicinn an diugh