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46 Grammatical and Etymological Analysis of Genesis I. 1-8.but adds that the etymology of this word is " still highly uncertain."For the root mancl cf. Fick's Wcirterbuch, i., 392.Chuir (set, put, place) the pret. of cuir, intin. cur, is perhapsconnected with the Skr. root kar (to do, to make), Lith. kur-iu(to build), and the other words compared under critth. Cf.Curtius' Gr. Etymology, p. 154.Dealachudh (separation) is the inf. or verbal noun, ace. case, ofthe verb dealaich (separate, divide). Dealachadh = O. Gael.deliugucl (Corm.'s Glo.ssary, p. 54) is from the root dal (to divide)identical with Skr. root dal (to divide, to split), data (a part orportion), Ger. thcilcn (to divide). Goth, dcdls (a part), Ice. dalr(a dale), A.S. duel (a part) and daelan (to divide), Eng. deal.To the same root belong Gael, dail (a dale), Ger. thai, andEng. dale.Eadar (between) is the modern weakened form of the prep.eter, also written etir and itar, cognate with Lat. inter (between),from prep, in cognate with the Gaelic prep, in compared above.Eter has dn:ip]icd n before the tenuis t by rule. Cf Z.G.C.,p. 42.5. "Agus dli'ainmich Dia an solus La, agus an dorchadasdh'ainmich e Oidhche : agus b'iad am feasgar agus a' mhaduiniian ceud la."Dltaiwiuicli (named) = do ainrnivh. Do is a verbal particlealways used before the pret. ind. of verbs beginning with avowel or with /. It is identical with the prep, do, which isetymologically connected with Slav, do (to), Goth, dxh, Ger. zu,A.S. to, Eng. to, Lat. do in endo, Gr. Se (towards), Zend da.Cf. Curtius' Grundz., p. 233. Ainmich is the pret. act. of ainm ich(to name) from ainm (name) (= anmi), plur. annum, connectedwith Skr. naman, Gr. ofofxa, Lat. nomen (name) and cognomen(surname), Goth, namo (name), A.S. noma, Eng. name. Thestem is *gndman from root gna, gan, cognate with Skr. jna. Tothe same root belong Gr. ytyvwa-KW, Lat. nosco for gnosco, Eng.knoiu, Gael, aithgne (knowledge), gnuis (countenance), nbs (custom)for gnbs, &c.La, or lb (day) is referred by Nigi-a to a stem *pratia, cognatewith Skr. pratar (the morning), but the connection is doubtful.The forms Id, Ida, Id, must have early lost a t. Cf. Idthe, IditJte.Oidhche (night), in Old Gael, aidche, was connected by Pictet(cf. Orig. Indo-Europ., II. 588) with Skr. andhiko. (night), thenasal being suppressed in Gaelic. For suppression of nasal