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Notes on Giwllc Grammar and Orthography. 153a' teachd a nuas o Dhia d, nfeamh, air ullachadh mar bhean-bainnseair a sgeadachadh fa chomhair a fir " (M'L. and C, 1880).In the edition of 182G, "am baile" (the town) was substituted for" a' chathair ' (the city) and " air ulluchadh " {he was prepared)for " air a h-uUuchadh " {she was prepared). These changesappear awkward in -Gaelic, chiefly on account of lerusalem (fem.)which is represented as a " bride adorned or prepared for her husband,"being followed by a masc. pronoun {he, i.e., the bride, was prepared).This awkwardness would he entirely removed by restoringcathair (fem.) and " air a h-ulluchadh," as in the edition of 179G.In the edition of 1860, " neamh " has no accent ; but this mistakehas been corrected in the edition of 1880.The apostrophe, which stands for the masc. poss. pronounbetween an infinitive beginning with a vowel or / and the precedingpreposition, was omitted before "ulluchadh" in the ed.of 1826, and has not been supplied in any subsequent edition.For " air ulluchadh," therefore, write "air 'ulluchadh" like "air'aireamh" (Is. liii. 12).In the ed. of 1880, a has been substituted for n in "ulluchadh,"a word which has known many changes, and which, therefore,might have been spared one for which no good reason can beassigned. From the root las (=;Lat. las, Skr. lash) came air-lam(ready, prepared) with its various forms er-lam, ir-lam, aur-lam,ar-lam. From itrlam came, through assimilation and aspiration,ullamh, and from ullamh came idlamhuchadh, xdhnhuchadh,idl'uchadh (1767), and ulhichadh. In Arran and some districtsof the Highlands, ulhnhiichadh is the form now in regularuse. The pref. air = *pari, is cognate with Eng. for. For thedouble sufi". ugad, ugtul,