The Scottish Celtic review

:Studies in Gaelic Grammtar— the Purtide Aiiv. 235man that, like the Greek o aiSpwTro^ eKeivo(i).the Gaelic idiom is that sin is a dera. locative.a nib—The explanation ofII. Examples of «?m denoting existence, or the pron. adv.1. " Ta * abhainu anu " (there is a rivei-) = ia (is, exists) +ahhainn (river, a river + ann (there).Ta (is) = *std, 3rd sing, of tdu = *stchb, which agrees with Lat.stu (I stand) = *stoo. Ata (is, exists) is the 3rd sing, of atdu =*ud-stau, agreeing with Lat. asto (I am, I exist) = Lat. ad-sto = adstao.Ta and ata denote existence connected with locality.Ahhainn (river) is really an accusative form from Old Gael.abann, aband (river), but is now, like many other accusatives,used as both nominative and accusative.This word is frequentlywritten a7nhainn, no doubt from a supposed connection with Lat.aninis (river), a supposition which may be correct if amnis= abnis. Pictet has compared abann, Welsh afon, Arm. aven,with Skr. avani (stream), and aband, inferred from abann,with the Skr. river-name avanti, and with Gr. "A^as, gen."X^avTO^. Cf. Beitr. p. 96.Ann = Old Gael, and has here precisely the force of the Eng_adv. there ( = old locative of the in " there is a river." The etymologyof ann was given above.2. "Nach bidhinn ann ni's mo " (that I should not be or existany more) = nach (that not) + bidhinn (I should be) + ann(there, in existence) -i- ni's (&ny) + mb (more).Nach = na-ch is the negative relative, connected with Skr. na(not) and ka (and, also), Lat. neqice.Bidhinn is the 1st pers. sing, (with pron. suft'.) of the conditionalmood of bi (be). Old Gael, biu, (I am), cognate with Lat.vivo (I live), vivus (alive), Gr. /3lo^ (life) = ^iFog, Goth, qvius (living),Eng. quick.Ann is the pron. adv. signifying there or in existence.Ni's = Old Gael, indas = in + das, the prep, in cognate withLat. in (cf. above), and das the relative form of tdu (I am). Fordas cf Z^ 489, 717.Mb is the compar. of the adjective mbr (great), from the rootmag (cf. Curt. Gr. Etjnn., pp. 329, 330), and, therefore, cognatewith Lat. magnus (great), i.tc.* Ta is usually unaccented in modern Gaelic, but always accented in theancient language.