An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

REMARKS ON THE LETTER G.
5 is the seventh letter of the Irish alphabet, and is ranked by our grammarians in the number of heavy consonants, called
by the Irish coinromeA'DOi cponi.v, but when it is aspiratefl or marked with an h subjoined to it, is counted one of the
light consonants, callrl cm.!]!!!-!- r,.N rAtici\onu\. In this aspirated state, ^, being the initial letter of a word, is pronounced
Ukci/ i" tb I >',/.•, yo?i)iy, etc., or like the Spanish 1 consonant in the word JesKs, Jose/)A; _b-.it
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3, aspirated by ;i ^iili; ,
i.;|,.' orend of a word, is rendered quitequiesccnt, or suppressed in the pronunciation.
! T.ms the words'rij;ej]vi,\. :i 1 I. :i;; 1 |\'i, a king, are pronouuced tiema and ri. But in its una^pirated ;iuil natural state,
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has always the same strong power with the Greek T. The very figure of the letter .9, in 111 "I'-i.r ..: I [. ir .'mi iits, is
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not esseutially dissimilar to some of the cuts of the old Abrabamic and Phosnician yimJ, inhldle
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column of Dr. Bernard's table of old alphabets, published by Dr. Moreton. The Hebrew -< . • v, _ are
assured by grammarians, from its crooked figure, bearing some resemblance^ to a camel, wii:< h i;i i I r i, :- . ili - i :]