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1912 SMC A GRAMMAROF OLD IRISH A GRAMMAR OF OLD IRISH BY REV. F. W. O'CONNHLL, M.A., B.D. FELLOWSHIP PRIZEMANjIN1 CLASSICAL AND SEMITIC PHILOLOGY TRINtTY COLLEGE, DUBLIN ; LECTURER IN THE CELTIC LANGUAGES AND L1TKRATURE IN T]IK QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST. BELFAST: MAYNE, BO YD & SON, LTD 1912. EDVARPO I. GWYNN COLLEG1I SANCTAE ET INDIVIDVAE TRINITATIS SOCIO QVI STVnilS LITTERARYM PRAEPOSITVS I'ATPJAE AMORE INCENKVS LINGVAM NOSTRAM DBS VET AM AB OBLIVIONE HOMINVM IN DIGNITATEM PRISTINAM PROPVGNATOR INDEFESSVS A'lNDICAVIT, VII PREFACE. THURNEYSEN'S Handbuch des Alt-Irischen is destined to remain, for many years to come, the standard grammar of Old Irish. Unfortunately it is a sealed book to the majority of our Irish students who are not acquainted with the German language, and consequently the want of a grammar in English has been felt in many quarters. Since it is a part of my duties at this University to deliver two lectures on Old Irish Grammar weekly during Term, I undertook a year ago to produce a grammar which should at least prove useful as a book of reference, and after many distractions I have completed it. It has proved by no means an easy task to compress the important facts of Old Irish grammar, together with the indispensable indices, within the prescribed limits of about two hundred page?,and no one can be more keenly conscious of the present work's defects than the author- but IN /cur u Mhur a di<-]n'<tll. My best thanks are due, in the first place, to Dr. Rudolf Thurneysen for his kind permission to make use of his Handbuch and to adopt some of his classifications in the hope of winning for them general recognition. I may here express also my indebtedness to Zeuss' Grammatica Celtica, Pedersen's Vergleichende Gframmatik dcr Keltischen Sprachoi and Aspirationeni Irsk, Yeudryes' Gframmaire dn rid/ irldiidiii*. Sarauw's Irske Studier, Strachan's Old Irish PnradifjniN and Selection* from the Glosses, the TliCNtitrrHN Palaeohibernicus, and numerous articles in the Revue Celtique, Zeitschrift filr Celtische Philologie, and VI11 Kriu. My thanks are also due to Professor0. J. Bergin of the National University, Mr. E. J. Gwynn, F.T.C.D., Mr. Walter J. Purton, and to my colleagues Professor R. M. Henry and Mr. A. 0. Belfour for reading proofs and for many valuable suggestions; further to the Finance Committee of this University for a grant in aid of publication : and lastly to Mr. John Boyd of the firm of Mayne & Boyd for the courteous interest which he has displayedand the careful supervisionwhich he has exercised in the production of the work. To the scholar I apologise for the liberties I have taken in the transliteration of Sanskrit words, especially in the matter of Yisarga, but I did not consider that they occurred so frequently as to warrant the expense of procuring special type. The Appendix containing grammatical terms I have added in order to show Irish students who are interested in the preservation and development of the Modern language how, by a process partly of boldly borrowing, partly of as boldly translating, our ancestors overcame the difficulty of new technical terms. In conclusion let me direct the student's attention to the list of Corrigenda and request him to follow the advice of the old glossator-' cocart!' FEARDORCHA UA CONAILL. QUEEN'S UNIVEKSITY, BELFAST. IX SUBJECT INDEX. [The references are to paragraphs.J Abstracts, formation of, 65. Adjectives, formation of, 67 ; declension of, 68-72 ; comparison of, 73-75 ; irregular comparison of, 76. Adverbs, 78, Oil, 256. 257. Article, 42, 43 ; with demonstratives, 45, 46, Aspiration, 9, 14 ; loss of, 17. ( 'ases, uses of, (ill. Compensatory Lengthening, 25. ( ' pounds of v std, 212. Conjunctions, 2-17 255. Consonants, double, IS; quality of, 1!); groups of, 21 ; original initial and final, 24 ; loss of, 25 ; origin of, 41. Copula, 203-211. Depalatalization, 22. Diminutives, formation of, 65. Diphthongs, 34. Deponents, 108, 119. Flexion, absolute and conjunct, 114 ; modes of, 116. Fractions, 82. Future, stem, 131 ;/-future, 132. 133; .-future, 135; s-futurc, 136; preterite, 134; asigmatic, 135; reduplicated, 135; of \crb.< 1'. IV.. 135; forms without reduplication, 137; reduplicated s-futurc, 138 ; preterite, 139. (Jemination, 16. Glides, 32, 33. Imperative, 124, 125. Indicative, present, 118 ; present deponent, 120 ; present passive, 122; imperfect, 123. Interrogative Particles, 92. Lenition, 9, 14. Loan-words, 258-261. Metathesis, 26. Nasalization, 15. Negatives, 101. Noun, 47 ; declension of, -111(14 : irregular declension of. (il. Noun Stems, vocalic, 48 ; consonantal, 57. Numerals, 79, 80 ; numeral substantives, 81. Orthography, 4, 8. Participle, past passive, 15,S; of necessity, 153. Prepositions, 215-24li. Preterite, stem, 140; .v-|>ivtrnle, 141, H'2 ; /-|>reten(e, 143, 144; sullixless, 14.">;reduplicated, 1 t">,140; irregular reduplication, ,147 ; uisreduplicated, 148 ; irregular unreduplicated, 149, 150 ; passive preterite stem, 151. PrevcrKs, I (12, 106. Proclitics, vocalism of, 40. Pronouns, personal, So; possessive. S4 ; aeeented form.- of, SI ; iiilixed, 85 ; allixcd, SO; sulii\ed,S7: suffixed to prepositions, 88-90; interrogative, 91 ; demonstrative, 93; indelinite, 95. Pronunciation, 4, 8. Quality, 19 ; change of, 20 ; confusion of, -2o. Relative, how expressed, 97 ; leniting relative sentences, 98 ; nasalizing, 99; genitive of, 100. .Bo, of possibility, 103; uses of, 104 ; position of, 1(15. Self, '.U. Strong Verbs, paradigm of, 176-190 ; table of, |>a-v 108. Subjunctive, stem, 120 ; ((-subjunctive, 12(}-128 ; ."-subjunctive, 126, 129, 130. Substantive Verb, 192-202. Syncopation, 37. Tense-stems, 109. Verbal nouns, 154. Verbs, 108; strong and weak, 11(1; number and person. 111; relative forms, 112; classificationof, 115; personalendings, 113, 117, 119, 121, 124; of existence,213 ; defective, 214,' Vowels, in accented syllables, 27 ; in unaccentedsyllables, 35 ; unaccentedin closedsyllables, 36 ; developmentof new, 38 ; vowel-contraction, 39. Weak Verbs, paradigm of, 155-175. TABLE OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS AND SYMBOLS. Anlaut =the initial sound of a word. Absolute anlaut = the initial sound of a word unaffected by a preceding sound. Inlaut =a sound occurring in the interior of a word or syllable. Auslaut = the final sound of a word. Ablaut = variation of the root-vowel. Sh'va = the Hebrew name of the obscure unac- cented vowel like e in Eng. ln'</in, Proto-Keltic = the Keltic language before its division into the Gadelic and Britannic branches. Prototonic = accented on the first syllable. Deuterotonic = accented on the second syllable. = reduced from. = reduced to. * denotesa hypothetical form. In the paradigmsof the verbs, forms in parentheses are such as do not occur but may be safely deduced. Prototonic verbal forms are denoted by a point prefixed thus - -tucad. ABBREVIATIONS. Arm. = Armenian. O.H.G. = Old High German. Bret. = Breton. 0. SI. = Old Slavonic. Goth. = Gothic. Skr. = Sanskrit. Gk. = Greek \V. = Welsh. Dor. Gk. = Doric Greek. Ml. = Milan Glosses. Id.-G. = Indo-Germanic. S.G. = St. Gall Glosses. Lat. = Latin. Tur. = Turin Glosses. O. Lat. = Old Latin. Wb. = Wiirzburg Glosses. Med. Lat. = Medieval Latin. L.U. =Lebor na h-Uidri. Lett. = Lettish. Hb. = Handbuch. Lith. = Lithuanian' Thurn. = Thurneysen. Bk. of Arm. Book of Armagh. V.G. Vergleichende Grammatik. Xll CORRIOENDA. Pasre7 lino17 f,n-.fied read//ad -;V7-(?e-) stems 30 24 ,, -m-stems ni nice 33 5 ,, muice » 'Host' 37 26 ,, 'host' ,, Erin Erin *^37 * 5* 27 of JSM 'Jesus.' 40 26 ,, of 'Jesus' 45 11, 12 e.q. eq. 45 27,33 ,, jirii'in.&c. f Irian,kc. 46 36, 37 con CO 47"*-" 1 nasalization leuition n. side, pi. -s'"/' 57 ,, 30 n. side, pi. sidi satthar 58 20 ,, Nitilhitr comtachtmar 63 -) comtcachtmar INTRODUCTION. Old Irish may be divided into three stages as follows :- First Stagfe, representedby many Oghaminscriptions and a few early inscriptions in the Roman character. The chief characteristic of this stage is the retention of some of the originalcase endings, e.g. magi (mace?'),inigena, Ercias. Second Stage, represented by later inscriptions in the Roman character, the prinia IIHIHUXof the Wiir/bnrg (! losses,the Cambrai Homily, the Turin palimpsest, the Codices Philargyrii, and the Irish names recorded in the Book of Armagh by Muirchu maccu Mactheni and Ti're- chan, and in Adamnan's Vita Columbae. This stage is characterized by the preservation of long 4, and 6, of the true diphthongs oi and di, of unaccented e and o between non-palatal consonants, of pretonic to (tu) in verbs, of i and e after non-palatal consonants, and of -o in gen. sing. of -i- and -«- stems, e.g. C&ran, Fe"cc, soos, ood, Loiguire, Oingiifi, Bditdn, Cdi<'hdn, Aclicd, dchtei; cdocht, tuthcgot, toncomra, Cajt/it, aiyit, Ailello, brdthn. Third Stagfe, represented by the rest of the Wiirzburg and other Continental Glosses;pieces of Old Irish prosein the Book of Armagh, Lebor na h-Uidre and other MSS.; Old Irish poems at St. Gall, Milan, and St. Paul's Kloster, Carinthia; 1'Ylire Oengusso, and the Irish Hymns in the Liber Hym- norum. In the language of this stage e and 6 have become ia and ua, oi and at are written oe and ae, e and o in unaccented syllables > a, i and e after non-palatal con- sonantsare written ai (HI) and ae, pretonic to (tu) > do ((/»), and -o in gen. sing, of -i- and -«- stems > a; e.g. Ciuran, .<mas, Loegiiire, Baetdn, Achad, cdacht, do- thtiujat, anjitit, brdtha. The verbal form tiithfyot (2nd stage) contains three archaismsin as many syllables, viz. tn- (later do-, du-), -tlieg- (later -thiag-),-ot (later -at), pre- historic Irish = *to-steighont. As the First Stage is represented merely by inscriptions composed of proper names linked together by means of iiniqi or or/, and as the Second Stage is practically confined to proper namesor glossesconsisting of single words, Old Irish grammar draws its material chiefly from the Third Stage.
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