Part 32 (2/2)
OF THE AGREEMENT OF ONE NOUN WITH ANOTHER
When in the same sentence two or more Nouns, applied as narammatical relation to other words, it should naturally be expected that their Form, in so far as it depends on that relation, should be the sa the saree in Case This accordingly happens in Greek and Latin In Gaelic, where a variety of forives room for the application of the same rule, it has been followed in some instances; as, Doncha mac Chailain mhic Dhonuil, _Duncan the son of {153} Colin the son of Donald_; where the words Chailain andalike related to the preceding Noun mac are on that account both in the saed, however, that this rule, obvious and natural as it is, has not been uniformly observed by the speakers of Gaelic For example; instead of mac Ioseiph an t-saoir, _the son of Joseph the carpenter_, many would more readily say, mac Ioseiph an saor; instead of thuit e le laimh Oscair an laoich chruadalaich, _he fell by the hand of Oscar the bold hero_, it would rather be said, thuit e le laimh Oscair an laoch cruadalach The latter of these two round of its being elliptical; and the ellipsis may be supplied thus: mac Ioseiph [is e sin] an saor; laimh Oscair [neach is e] an laoch cruadalach Still it must be allowed, in favour of the rule in question, that the observance of it serves to mark the relation of the Nouns to each other, which would otherwise reoing examples, if we should reject the rule, and write mac Ioseiph an saor; it would be impossible to know, from the form of the words, whether Joseph or his son were the carpenter
The translators of the Scriptures into Gaelic, induced probably by the reasonableness and utility of the rule under consideration, by the exae of the Gaelic itself in some phrases, have unifor Noun was in the Genitive; as, do h-chathair Dhaibhi athar, 1 Kings ii 12; do thaobh Bheniaabhail nan clar chloiche, eadhon chlar a'
cho-cheangail, Deut ix 9 The rule see Noun was in the Dative See 1 Kings i 25, Ruth iv 5, Acts xiii 33 {154}
CHAPTER II
OF GOVERNMENT
Under this head is to be explained the Government of Nouns, of Adjectives, of Verbs, of Prepositions, and of Conjunctions
SECTION I
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NOUNS
One Noun governs another in the Genitive The Noun governed is always placed after that which governs it; as, ceann tighe, _the head of a house or fahabhar _oats_
The Infinitives of Transitive Verbs, being theovern in likeseed_; a dh' fhaicinn an t-sluaigh, _to see the people_; iar leughadh an t-soisgeil, _after reading the gospel_[105]
Although no good reason appears why this rule, which is coes, should ever be set aside, yet it has been set aside in speaking, and sooverned does in its turn govern another Noun in the Genitive, the former is often put in the No instances of this anomaly occur in the Gaelic Scriptures:--Guth briathran an t-sluaigh, instead of, bhriathran, _the voice of the words of the people_, Deut v 28; do haraidh, instead of, chraobhan, _of the fruit of the trees of the garden_, {155} Gen iii 2; ag itheadh tighean bhantrach, for thighean, _devouring s' houses_, Matt xxiii 14; ag nochdadh obair an lagha, for oibre, _showing the work of the law_, Rous saothair bhur graidh, for oibre, saoithreach, _re your work of faith, and labour of love_, 1 Thess i 3; trid fuil is fearta Chriost, _through the blood and merits of Christ_, Gael Paraph 1787, p 381, for trid fola Chriost, as in Eph ii
13; ag aiteach sliabh shi+oin, for sleibh, _inhabiting the hill of Zion_, Psal ix 11to the usage of the language, but changed to oibre, in Edit 1796, to suit the Graeneral rule, even in these circuuth fola do bhrathar, _the voice of thy brother's blood_, Gen iv 10; ah _the river of the land of the children of his people_, Nuhearna, _to wash the feet of the servants of my lord_, 1 Sa seem to be exceptions to the rule:--Dithis mac, 2 Sam xv 27, 36; ceathrar mac, 1 Chron xxi 20; leanabaibhsimilar instances, the rule is observed:--Dithis mhac, Gen xli 50; dithis fhear, 2 Sahdiona, Acts xxi 9
The saih an Infinitive be in that gra Noun which would require its being put in the Genitive, yet when itself also governs another noun in the Genitive, it often retains the fornathachadh, briseadh, adnathachaidh, brisidh In the following exaovern a subsequent Noun in the Genitive, are theh their relation to the preceding word naturally requires their being put in the Genitive Case Tha an treas aithne a' toirhnathach_adh_ ni sa or the abusing of any thing_, &c assem Cat Gael Edin 1792, Answer to Q 55 Ged fheud luchdbris_eadh_ na h-aithne so dol as, &c, id
Q 56, _though the transgressors of this commandment may escape_, &c Cuis crath_adh_ cinn is cas_adh_ beil, Psal xxii 7, as it is in the older edition of the Gaelic Psal of the Law_, Acts xiii 15; luchd cum_adh_ uilc, Rom i 30[107]
The Infinitive is not put in the Genitive, when preceded {157} by a Possessive pronoun, because it is in the saoverned a Noun in the Genitive Case; as, a chum am marbh_a_dh 's na beanntaibh, _to kill them in the mountains_, Exod xxxii, not overned by chu iarraidh doiad leo e chuu cath Rev xx
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This coincidence in the Regimen of the Infinitive in two similar situations, viz, when limited by a Possessive pronoun, and when liu the Infin in the Nooverns a Noun in the Genitive; for we find the Infin is invariably put in the Nonification by a Possess pronoun
When one Noun governs another in the Genitive, the Article is never joined to both, even though each be lih, _the son of the king_, not ah; taobh deas a' bhaile, _the south side of the town_, not an taobh deas a' bhaile[109] For the most part, the Article is thus joined to the latter Noun Sohe, _the head of the family_; an ceann iuil, _the pilot_; but in such instances the two Nouns figure as one complex term, like _paterfa examples, in which the Article is joined to both Nouns, seenant to the Gaelic idio mle, Matt xvi 9; _nan_ seachd aran _nan_ ceithir mle, Matt xvi
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A Possessive pronoun joined to the Noun governed excludes, in like ; as, barr-iall a bhrige, _the latchet of his shoe_, not ae; obair bhur lamh, _the work of your hands_, not an obair bhur lamh