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GrummaCical and Etymoluylcul Anali/sis of Genesis I. 1-8. 47cf. Skr. root hundh ami (). t!a(;l. hulden, now huidJiean (atroop).B'iad = hit (was or were) and iad (they). Bu is the regularGael, representative of Gr. 0u- in (j)V(o,and of Lat./u- in fui, comparedabove under hha.Tad is the modern weakened form of the ancient 3rd per. pron.plur. iat, from which, as shown by the absence of aspiration, ti,preserved in W. tvynt, has di'opped out, as is usual before thetenues. lad is thus shown to correspond to the Skr., Gr., andLat. suffixes in nt of the 3rd per. plur. of the verb. Cf. Bopp'sComp. Grammar. It is worthy of notice that these pron. verbsuffixes are preserved as separate words in the Celtic languages.Feasgar (evening) was in O. Gael, fescor, dat. fescur,agreeing to, if not, as is more probable, borrowed from Lat. vesper,Gr. eo-Trejoo?. The Corn, giuespar. Arm. gousper, and W.gosper have retained the p which Gaelic has changed into c,as isusual in loan-words. In W. ucher p has become ch.Maduinn (morning) is the modern form of matin, connectedwith, or rather borrowed from, Lat. matutinus.Ceud (first) was in O. Gael. c(^t = W. kynt = Gaul, cintus(cf Cintugenus = Gael. Cetgen).C. "Agus thubhairt Dia, Biodh athar am meadhon nanuisgeachan, agus cuireadh e dealachadh eadar uisgeachan agusuisgeacha."Athar (the air, firmament) = Gr. aiOyp, Lat. aether.Am meadhon (in midst, amidst) was in 0. Gael, immedon,the prep, im and noun medon written together as one word.Am (in) = O. Gael, im for in compared above under anns. N ofthe prep, becomes m before the labial m of meadhon. It maybe noticed here that am is not a contracted word, and that,therefore, it should not be written with an apostrophe befoi-e it.Of this prep, there is a reduplicated form ann am, as "ann ammeadhon" (in midst, amidst). Meadhon (middle, midst) inO. Gael, medon, is cognate with Skr. madhjas (middle, midst),Zend maidhya (middle), maidhema (the midmost), Gr. ^eVo-o?,Lat. medius, Goth, midjis, Slav, mezda, Ger. mitte, A.S. midde,Eng. mid.7. " Agus rinn Dia an t-athar, agus chuir e dealachadh eadarna h-uisgeachan a bha fuidh 'n athar, agus na h-ui.sgeachan a bhaOS cionn an athair: agus bha e mar sin."