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_In co, _the stone is heavy compared with the down_

Tar, thar

_Over_, _across_: chaidh e thar an amhainn, thar a' mhonadh, _he went over the river, over the mountain_; tha sin thar e, beyond my coh_: tre uisge is tre theine, _through water and through fire_

OF INSEPARABLE PREPOSITIONS

The following initial syllables, used only in composition, are prefixed to nouns, adjectives, or verbs, to nification:-- {133}

An[92], Di, Ao, ea, eu, eas, Mi, Neo:--Privative syllables signifying _not_, or serving to change the signification of the words to which they are prefixed into its contrary; as, socair _ease_, anshocair _distress_, _uneasiness_; ciontach _guilty_, dichiontach _innocent_; treabh _to cultivate_, dithreabh _an uncultivated place_, _a desert_; dionach _tight_, _close_, aodionach _leaky_; cir _justice_, eucoir _injustice_; slan _whole_, _in health_, easlan _sick_; caraid _a friend_, eascaraid _an eneratitude_; claon _awry_, neochlaon _unbiassed_, _impartial_; duine _a man_, neodhuine _a worthless unnatural creature_

An, ain, intensitive, denoting an ihearnas _dohearnas _tyranny_; trogravate_; teas _heat_, ainteas _excessive heat_; miann _desire_, ainain_, _back_; as, eirigh _rising_, aiseirigh _resurrection_; beachd _view_, ath-bheachd _retrospect_; fas _growth_, ath-fhas _after-growth_

Bith, _continually_; as, bithdheana continually_, _busy_; aether_, _equally_, _ether_; lion _to fill_, colion _to fulfil_, _acco_, coht_, cothroe_, comhaois _a contemporary_

Im, _about_, _round_, _entire_; as, lan _full_, iohaoth _a ind_; slainte _health_, iom-shlainte _perfect health_

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In, or ion, _worthy_: as, ion-hnuidh _worthy to be chosen_, Psal xxv 12, _, so-fhaicsin _easily seen_; sion _weather_, soinion [so-shi+on] _calospel_

Do, _with difficulty_, _evil_; as, tuigsin _understanding_, do-thuigsin _difficult to be understood_; doinion _stormy weather_; beart _deed, exploit_ do-bheart _evil deed_

CHAPTER VIII

OF CONJUNCTIONS

Under this class of words, it is proper to enule Particles which are usually denominated Conjunctions; but also the most common phrases which are used as Conjunctions to connect either words or sentences

Ach; but

Agus, is; and

A chionn gu; because that

A chuu; in order that

A chuu; so that

Air eagal gu, } D' eagal gu; } _for fear that_, lest

Air son gu, } Du bhrigh gu; } by reason that Bheil fhios, 'l fhios? _is there knowledge?_ is it known? an expression of curiosity, or desire to know

Co; as

Ged, giodh; although[93]

{135} Ged tha, ge ta; _though it be_, notwithstanding

Gidheadh; yet, nevertheless

Gu, gur; that

Gun fhios; _without knowledge_, it being uncertain whether or not, in case not