A Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary
McMMAkill-zMn ^/%^cu<:p^^ '^^-t.v ^ ^ ^' ^;^ ^/-- 9^^e^y ^^^ "^ / PRONOUNCING GAELIC DICTIONARY: \ f TO WHICH IS PREFIXED -" A. CONCISE BUT MOST COMPREHENSIVE GAELIC GRAMMAR. By NEIL M'ALPINE, STUDENT IN DIVINITY, ISLAND OF ISLAY, ARGYLESIIIBE. " Vi'iihout a considerable knowledge of Gaelic no person can make any proficiency Trhatever 1 philology. Dr. Murray, late Prafesior of Oriental Languages, Edinburgh. SECOND EDITION, CONTAINING NUMEROUS IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. PUBLISHED BY STiRLING & KENNEY, EDINBURGH; REID 8c CO. GLASGOW ; JAMES DUNCAN, LONDON ; JOHN GUMMING, DUBLIN, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MDCCCXXXIIL Edinburgh .•—Duncan Stevenson, Printer to the University. —; ; KEY. A has six sounds in the Key. O has four sounds, long and short. a long, like a in fame, came, tame. o, as o in more, mor, tone, ton, pole, pel. a, a, à2, is the short sound of the last, as Ò, o, Ò-, short sound of the above. a in fate, rate, gate, final. Ò sounds like o in lord, lord, cord, kOrd. à is the sound of a in far, far, star, star. 6 is the short of the last ; o shorter. S is the short soft sound of the last ; as, in Ò is the long nasal sound, occurring uni- farm, farm. formly before mh, and sometimes be- a is the short and shut sound of a, as in fore n ; in many instances the nasal can. sound of occurs otherwise placed ; as, à is the nasal sound. The only sounds in mod, a court ofjustice, being aeon, that approach this, in English, is a in traction of momhad ; also mo, contrac- palm, calm, psalm.
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