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234 Studies in Gaelic Grammai— the Particle Ann.2. " Anns an oidhche " (in the night) = ann (in) + san (the)+ oidhche (night).Oidhche is the dat. sing, of oidhche (night) = Old Gael. fern, iastemaidche, connected by Pictet with Skr. andhika (night). Theold dat. is aidchi.3. " Ann an dochas " (in hope) = " an dochas " = an (in) + dbchas(hope).Ann an is explained by Stewart (cf. Gramm. p. 127) as a reduplicatedform of ann or an (cf chuca, to them, mod. form of cucaand cucthu, which show a reduplication of the prep, co, to). Aiiis the regular mod. form of the Old Gael. prep, in (cognate withLat. in), and should, therefore, be written without an apostrophebefore it (a7i, not 'an).The two views, one of which regards an in such phrases as" ann an dochas " (in hope), " ann am meadhon a' bhaile " (in themidst of the town) as the article, and the other of which regardsit as an abbreviated form of " ann an," will be afterwards discussed,when we shall show that both are erroneous.Dbchas is the dat. sing, of the masc. noun dbchas (hope), gen.dbchais, a derivative from the adj. ddigh, dbich (probable, likely,certain), compar. docha = Old Gael, ddchu, which Stokes has connectedwith Gr. SoKew, but which Zimmer (Cf Zeitschr. fiir Vergl.Spr. xxiv. 202) would resolve into *do-ech, *do-sech, or *do-fech(cf the roots sale, to say, and vak, to speak).4. " Anns a' bharail sin (of that opinion, lit. in that opinion)= ann (in) +sa' (the) + bharail (opinion) + sin (that).Sa' = san, the dat. sing. fem. of the article. The nasal of thearticle is elided in Scottish Gaelic in the dat. sing, before nounsbeginning with a guttural or a labial (/ excepted), when thegoverning preposition terminates with a consonant. When thenasal is elided, the initial consonant of the following word isaspirated.Bharail is the dat. sing, of the fem. noun harail = Old Gael.haramail (opinion, conjecture), " apparently a compound ofsamail " (Stokes) =*samali, cognate with Lat. similis, Gr. 6/xaX69,ofiog, Ski\ samas, Goth, sama, Eng. same, &c.Sin (that), dem. pron. from the stem sa (with suff. na) identicalwith Skr. sa, sa-s (he), and connected with Old. Lat. su-m, sa-m(cf. p. 49). In Gaelic the dem. pron. follows its noun, which thentakes the article before it. "That man" is "an duine sin " (the