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

NOTES ON PREPOSITIONSxixlé, 'with, by.' It is commonly used to express the agent afterthe pass, voice: gadtar leó, 3, i8; marbhthar U Tadhg é, 8, 74;ittear an biadh libh, 20, 36, &c., a construction which has diedout in Ireland, the active being now used whenever the agentis mentioned. In a few cases it is used for re (= fri): ni Uriar a mhuirir, 11, 4.; ioc U, 23, 26 (cf. line 20).re, O.lr.fri, 'to, towards, against,' is generally kept distinct fromlé: adubhairt ris, 1, 21; Uigeadh ris, 1, 24; re linn, 6, 4; maraon re, 2, 62; Idinih re, 5, 41 ; tugadar a ngnúise ré lár, 23, 197;ucht ré hucht, 11, 18; an taobh do bhiodh ris an bhfeóil, 14, 24;do sgaradh re, 29, 7. It sometimes eclipses on the analogy of ren-, ria n-, 'before' (from which also comes the form réna): rémbeith calma dhóibh, 3, 2; ré dtriall dóibh, 'when they weregoing,' 26, 136 (cf. re linn). It is, however, often used for U: arteicheadh re Deirdre, 2, 42; mar is toil re Dia, 19, 17; 24, 13(cf. 23, 148; 25, 55); robudh mithidh ris an righ dul, 31, 311.Keating appears to have deliberately avoided the prep, chum(dochiun). To express motion towards he uses do, go, d'ionnsaighe,d'fhios, i nddil, igcoinne, ar ceann, &c., and to express purpose, do andre.The forms chugam, chugat, &c., are common in his writings, butthese are compounds of the prep, go, and have no etymological connexionwith chum.COMBINATIONS OF PREPOSITIONSI. With Article, Possessives, and Relativeag with poss. sg. I agom, 3 m. agá, 'gá, f. agá; pi. 3 agá.„ rel. agd.de with art. don; pi. dona.„ poss. sg. 2 dot, 3 m. dd, f. dd; pi. 2 ddbhar, 3 da {dia, 15, 25).„ rel. dd {dia, 28, 27), ddr.do with art. don; pi. dona.„ poss. sg. I doin, 3 m. dd, f. dd; pi. i ddr, 3 da.,, rel. dd.