Part 34 (1/2)

The Parts of Speech which are formed by derivation from other words are Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs These are chiefly derived from Nouns and Adjectives, and a few from Verbs

I NOUNS

Derivative Nounsto the varieties of their termination

1 Abstract Nouns in _as_, formed from Adjectives or Nouns; as, from ceart _just_, ceartas _justice_; from diomhan _idle, vain_, diomhanas _idleness, vanity_; from caraid _a friend_, cairdeas contracted for caraideas _friendshi+p_; from namhaid _an enemy_, naimhdeas contracted for namhaideas _enmity_

2 Abstract Nouns in _achd_, forh more rarely, from Verbs and Nouns; as, from naomh _holy_, naomhachd _holiness_; from domhain _deep_, doih _a king_, rioghachd _a kingdo_; clachair _a oibhneachd contracted for gobhaineachd _iron-work_, or rather _the trade or occupation of a senitive of Adjectives, by adding _e_; as, froen gil _white_, gile _whiteness_; froen teirc _rare_, teirce _rarity_; troh _unhappy_, truaighe _en

{165} uasail _noble_, uasaile contr uaisle or by metath uailse _nobility_

4 Abstract Nouns in _ad_, for of the degree of a quality; as, gilead _whiteness_, boidhchead _beauty_, doihad _smallness_, tainead _thinness_; these are construed with the Prepositions _de_, _air_; as, cha n-fhaca mi a samhuil air bhoidhchead, _I have not seen her had, _however small it be_

5 Nouns in _air_ or _oir_, _ach_, _iche_, derived, ents, as, pobair _a player on the pipe_, from pob _a pipe_; clarsair _a player on the harp_, frooir _a deceiver_, frooir _a hunts_; marcach _a rider_, froure_, froeulaiche _a reciter of tales_, froeul _a tale_; ceannaiche _a merchant_, from ceannaich _to buy_[113]

6 Di_, formed from Nouns or Adjectives; as, lochan _a s _a thievish girl_; fro _a little dark-coloured creature_ These Diminutives are often foren feoir _grass_, feoirnean _a pile of grass_; en en fuilt _hair_, fuiltean _a single hair_; clag gen cluig _a bell_, cluigean _a little bell_; gual gen guail _coal_, guailnean _a cinder_; sen smuir _dust_, se_, cli _a small feather, a flake of snow_

Some Nouns are formed in _an_, which are not Diminutives; as, from lub _to bend_, luban _a bow_; from buail _to beat, thresh_, {166} buailtean _a beater_, or _thresher_, applied to that part of the flail which threshes out the grain

7 Collective Nouns in _ridh_ or _ri_, derived froridh _youth_, in the collective sense of the word; fro men_, Psal cxlviii 12;[114] from laoch _a hero_, laochruidh _a band of heroes_, Psal xxix 1 Macfarlan's Paraph vi 15, fros, p 7, from cos the _foot_, coisridh _infantry, a party on foot_

McIntyre's Songs, Edin 1768, p 110, froasradh _a band of doas; eachradh, eachruith _cavalry_, Fingal IV 299, Carthon, 59--This termination is probably the Noun ruith _a troop_ See Lhuyd et O'Brien, in voc[115]

8 Nouns in _ach_, chiefly Patronymics, formed from Proper Names, thus; from Donull _Donald_, is forar _Gregor_, Griogarach _a Macgregor_; so Leodach _a Macleod_, Granntach _a Grant_, &c, from Albainn _Scotland_, Albannach _a Scotsman_; from Eirin _Ireland_, Eirineach _an Irishularly, Donullaich, Leodaich, Albannaich, Eirinich So the following _Gentile_ Nouns, which occur in the Gaelic Scriptures, are regularly formed from their respective Primitives, Partuich _Parthians_, Medich _Medes_, Elamuich _Elamites_, Acts ii 9 Macedonaich _Macedonians_, 2 Cor ix 2, 4 See also Gen xv 19, 20, 21; Exod xxiii 23, 28[116]

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9 Collective Nouns in _ach_; as, duille _a leaf_, duilleach _foliage_; giuthas _fir_, giuthasach _a fir wood_; iughar _yew_, iugharach _a yew copse_; fiadh _a deer_, fiadhach _deer, a herd of deer_; crion _diminutive, shrunk_, crionach _decayed wood_

II ADJECTIVES

1 Adjectives in _ach_, forenerally from Nouns; as, frolee_, sunntach _cheerful_; cradh _pain_, craiteach _painful_; togradh _desire_, togarrach _willing, desirous_

2 Adjectives in _mhor_ or _or_, derived from Nouns; as, from adh _felicity_, adhmhor _happy, blessed_; froth_, neart_

3 Adjectives in _ail_ derived from Nouns; as, from fear _man_, fearail _manful_; from caraid _a friend_, cairdail contr for caraidail _friendly_; from namhaid _an enemy_, naimhdail contr for namhaidail _hostile_; from surd _alertness_, surdail _alert_[117]

4 A few Adjectives in _ta_ or _da_, derived fro to the Gael_; Eireanda _Irish_; Rohteous_, Matt xxiii 35

III VERBS