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| bearna | bearr | bearrṫa |
| barr | bord | buird |
| carnaḋ | ceard | cairde |
| ceirde | corda | carnaim |
| dearna | fearr | feirrde |
| foirne | foirneart | gearr |
| gearrfad | meirleaċ | meirleaċas |
| ord | orduiġ | pardún |
| ṫarla | uird | urla |
| urlais | urnuiġṫe | urlár |
doirse = dóirse in Minister, but not in Connaught.
74. The a and o in ṫársa and ṫórsa (from ṫar) are long; we have written a síneaḋ over the vowels because they are long in Munster and Connaught, and s does not usually protect r—e.g., pearsa, tuirse, ursa, foirse, &c.
A síneaḋ ought not to be written over a vowel that is long by position (especially when long in only one dialect)—e.g., bord, ceard, barr, ord, ought not to be written bórd, ceárd, bárr, órd, because the genitives of bord and ord are buird and uird (cf. cnoc, cnuic; port, puirt; gort, guirt, &c.), whilst the genitives of bórd, órd, should be bóird, óird (cf. spórt, spóirt; brón, bróin; bród, bróid; sról, sróil, &c). Similarly the genitive of ceard is ceirde, not ceáirde. Again, the
