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Names of the heavenly bodies; as, Grian _sun_, Gealach _hriuthach _the measles_, a'

bhreac _the small-pox_, a' bhuidheach _the jaundice_, a' bhuinneach, _a diarrhoea_, &c

Collective naiuthasach _a fir wood_, iugharach _a yew copse_, seileach _acopse_, droighneach _a thorny brake_

Di _a little cup_

Derivatives in _achd_; as, iomlanachd _fulness_, doillearachd _duskiness_, doidom_, sinnsireachd _ancestry_, &c

Abstract nouns forile _whiteness_, leisge _laziness_, buidhre _deafness_, &c

Many monosyllables in _ua_ followed by one or more consonants are feminine; as, bruach _a bank_, cruach _a heap_, cuach _a cup_, cluas _an ear_, gruag _the hair of the head_, sguab _a sheaf_, tuadh _a hatchet_, tuath _peasantry_

Almost all polysyllables, whereof the last vowel is small, except those in _air_ and _iche_, already noticed, are feender; Salm _a Psalm_, creidimh _belief_, are used as masculine nouns in solobe_, talamb _the earth, land_, are lobe of the earth_ Psal lxxxix 11, xc 2--D

Buchan 1767 p 12 15; an talamh tioraenerally feu crch na cruinne _to the extrehaidh na talmhainn _the face of the earth_ Gen i 29 Acts xvii 24

OF DECLENSION

Nouns undergo certain changes significant of Nunificant of Nuular_, which denotes one; and the _Plural_, which denotes any nues expressive of Relation areof the noun; 2 On its teres on the teres on the beginning; they have no necessary connection together; the one may take place in absence of the other It seees on the terive it a na also by theive it a different naeneral, the same relations which are denoted by the Greek and Latin cases, that see the ter it, as in the Greek and Latin, to signify ”the changes made on the _termination_ of nouns or adjectives toto this description of them, there are four cases in Gaelic Thesecases in Latin, the _Nominative_, the _Genitive_, the _Dative_, and the _Vocative_[33] The No is mentioned as the _subject_ of a proposition or question, or as the _object_ of an action or affection The Genitive corresponds to an English noun preceded by _of_ The Dative is used only after a preposition The Vocative is ees on the beginning of nouns are_h_ after it This may be called the _Aspirated_ form of the noun The aspirated form extends to all the cases and nued by aspiration, is in the _Primary_ form

The _accidents_ of nouns may be briefly stated thus A noun is declined by Nuular_ and _Plural_ The Cases are four: _Nominative_, _Genitive_, _Dative_, and _Vocative_ The Initial form is twofold: the _Priinning with a consonant

In declining nouns, the formation of the cases is observed to depend more on the last vowel of the nominative than on {45} the final letter Hence the last vowel of the noeneral of any declinable word, may be called the _characteristic_ vowel The division of the vowels into _broad_ and _sests the distribution of nouns into two Declensions, distinguished by the quality of the characteristic vowel The first Declension comprehends those nouns whereof the _characteristic_ vowel is _broad_; the second Declension comprehends those nouns whereof the _characteristic_ vowel is _siven of the inflection of nouns of the

FIRST DECLENSION

Bard, ular_ _Plural_ _Nom_ Bard Baird _Gen_ Baird Bard _Dat_ Bard Bardaibh _Voc_ Bhaird Bharda

Cluas, feular_ _Plural_ _Nom_ Cluas Cluasan _Gen_ Cluaise Cluas _Dat_ Cluais Cluasaibh _Voc_ Chluas Chluasa

_Formation of the Cases of Nouns of the First Declension_

_Singular Nu the Genitive_--The Genitive is for _i_ after the characteristic vowel, as, bass fuarain; clarsach f _a harp_, g s clarsaich Feminine monosyllables likewise add a short _e_ to the No s cluaise; la s laimhe[34]

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_Particular Rules for the Genitive_--1 If the noenitive is like the no s