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mistake can possibly arise by using them, (for the consonant after s can be kept unvoiced only by a strong effort), and as they have been adopted as the standard spelling in “The Irish Text Society’s Dictionary,” it is better to let them stand, than to alter them to sg, sb, sd).
Mn and Cn.
135. In Connaught and Ulster the combinations mn and cn are always pronounced mr and cr.
| mná | is pronounced in | Connaught and Ulster | mrá |
| cnoc | „ | „ | croc |
| cnó | „ | „ | cró |
| cnáṁ | „ | „ | cráṁ |
Effects of the sound of h.
136. The various aspirated consonants, which get tee sound of h—viz., ṫ, ṡ, f in terminations of verbs, and slender ċ, unvoice[1] the consonant beside them—i.e., they change the sound of b into that of p, v (ḃ, ṁ) into f, g into c, and d into t; they also unvoice the liquids—e.g., naoṁ is pronounced naov, but if -ṫa be added, the ṫ (= h) unvoices the ṁ, and naoṁṫa is pronounced naofa.
| gaoṫṁar (=gaofar). | leabṫa (=leapa). |
| líoṁṫa (=líofa). | deirḃṡiúr (=dre-fúr). |
