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Tlic Laws of Aiislidtt in Irinh. 31are known by the name of aspiration and eelipsis. O'Donovanexjilains the latter, in his Ir. Gramm. (p. 58), in the followingmanner : " Eelipsis in Irish grammar may be defined the suppressionof the sounds of certain radical consonants, by prefixingothers of the same organ." In this way, h is eclipsed in pronunciationby TO,

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