Stories from Keating's History of Ireland - National Library of Scotland

^ )LANGUAGETHE NOUNEclipsisThe eclipsis of the initial of nouns is sometimes puzzling tomodern readers. Eclipsis is regular when a preceding word, closelyconnected, formerly ended in n, which was carried on by a process/JjLlike the French liaison.Such words are the prepositions i_n-, go n-,/^7> i*** Jul u ' with %rén-, ' before ', iarjih, the def . art. in the a^. sg. and gen. gL,WnflJf' 3.ny noun or adj. in the same cases, and the nom. and voc. sg. neut.The following prepositions governed the ace, amhail, gan, go h-, to ' ',(5**J[^ N f)kiy^ lU idir, U, mar, re, tar, tré, and um, with ar, i n-, and fa after verbs-^ of motion. The following nouns in the Stories show traces of theirrA^ /v^/^ j old neuter gender, arm, be, buaidh, dad, ddl, 'race', diotnbuaidh,n \fior, 'truth'. Id, loch, magh, rath, siol, sliabh, teach, trdth, trian. But^f -") "w"' eclipsis often spreads beyond its original limits. Thus the nom. Siol^fi^^^aSiX^- .n£^g}iain gives a gen. Sil nEóghain. After the article governed by^." ,1, V-owing to the confusion of cases and the decay of the neuter gender,a preposition there is much fluctuation between aspiration and1 ^44^55**^*" eclipsis. Thus ó took the dative, hence regularly on bhaile, 5, 75 ; onQj\^ fr