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slender consonant. The “e” glide is very marked, except when it is initial or follows s.
In Ulster eoi is pronounced like the “o” in “lord,” “adorn” &c, preceded and followed by a slender consonant.
| beoir | feoil | ceoil |
| feoir | neoin | inneoin |
| deoir | gleoite | fuinneoig |
| driseoig | seoil | breoite |
AOI.
119. This trigraph gets the sound of í, preceded by a broad consonant, in Connaught and Munster. After a labial the sound is like “wee.”
In Ulster, the sound is that of ao in that province (viz., German ö) followed by a slender consonant.
| scaoil | caoil | faoisidin |
| aois | Aoine | Aoife |
| taoide | daoine | caoin |
| caṫaoir | maoir | gaoiṫe |
| saoirse | daoirse | aoirde |
120. In Munster, aoi in the following words = é, preceded by a broad consonant.
| naoi | caoi | faoiseaṁ |
| naoiṁ | faoi (slender f) | saoi |
| daoi |
