The Scottish Celtic review

!152 yote« oil Gaelic Gramuiur aitd Orth.oijruitliy.see, connected with Gr. SepK-ofxai, I see), is not now used inScottish spoken Gaelic ; but the nn of cJmnnaic, from conacciu= con-ad-ciu, from root cas, Skr. caksh, may, perhaps, be tracedto its influence.It may be noticed that the sing, form.s of the consuetudinalpast tense, in O'Donovan's Gramm., are from the rootdark, whilst the plur. forms are from the root cas. In ScottishGaelic, chunnaic, 3rd pers. sing., is the common form for the threepersons, sing, and plur. In chonnairc, nn = nd. Initial c is aspiratedbecause do, or older ro, is understood before the preterite.Nas has been substituted, very unnecessarily, for nis, 0. Gael.indaas, before the comi^arative mb in the edition of 1880. SeeO'Donovan's Gramm., p. 118, where the following quotation froma poem, attributed to St. Columba, is given in support of nios orni's : " Gidh airchind shires ni is mo " (though a prince shouldask more). Ni's is the form hitherto used in the Gaelic Scripturesand in all other works written with any degree of accuracy;and, therefore, it should not have been displaced merely for reasonsbased upon erroneous views of Gaelic etj'mology. We have heardone of the editors of this edition urge as a reason for the adoptionof na's, that it is connected with the comparative neasa(next)2. " Agus do chonnairc misi E6in, an chathair ndomhtha lerusalemnuadh, ag teachd o Dhia a nuas 6 ^neamh, ar na hullmhughadh,amhuil ghldusas bean niiadhphosda i fein fA chomhaira fir" (Kirke, 1090)."Agus chunnairc mise Eoin a' chaithir naomha, leru.salemnuadh, ag teachd a nuas o Dhia a neamh, air a h ull'uchadh marbhean-bainnse air a sgeadachadh gu maiseach fa chomhair a fir "(Stewart, 1707)."Agus chuunaic mise Eoin a' chathair naomha, lerusalemnuadh, a' teachd a nuas o Dhia a neamh, air a h-ulluchadh marbhean-bainnse air a sgeadachadh fa chomhair a fir" (Stewarts,1796)." Agus chunnaic mise Eoin am baile naomh, lerusalem nuadh,a' teachd a nuas o Dhia a neamh, air ulluchadh mar bheanbainniseair a sgeadachadh fa chomhair a fir" (Assembly's Ed.,1826)." Agus chunnaic mi.se Eoin am baile naomh, lerusalem nuadh,a' teachd a nuas o Dhia a neamh, air ulluchadh mar bhean-bainnseair a sgeadachadh fa chomhair a fir" (M'L, and C, 1800)." Agus chunnaic mise Eoin am baile naomh, lerusalem nuadh,