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Ah sandhi

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2013-10-25T09:36:58Z

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@@ Loidhne 43: / Loidhne 43: @@
 | <span style="color: #008000;">ann an Bealach</span> || [aNəm bjaLəx] || in Balloch
 |-
-| <span style="color: #008000;">ann am nuga</span> || [aNəm mugə] || in a mug
+| <span style="color: #008000;">ann am muga</span> || [aNəm mugə] || in a mug
 |-
 | <span style="color: #008000;">ann an ubhal</span> || [aNə Nu.əL] || in an apple

@@ Loidhne 38: / Loidhne 38: @@
 No, not a bloke from Glesga, it's a Sanskrit word for funny stuff that happens to sounds at word boundaries. Technically lenition is a form of <span style="color: #6600CC;">sandhi</span>.
-So, I want to mention here that <span style="color: #008000;">ann an</span>, before labials (b, bh, p, m, f), changes to <span style="color: #008000;">ann am</span> [aNəm]. But, more importantly (and potentially annoyingly), the -n strengthens to a [N] or a [Nʲ] in front of vowels depending on whether the next vowel is broad or slender and jumps from the end of [aNəN ~ aNəNʲ] to the next word:
+So, I want to mention here that <span style="color: #008000;">ann an</span>, before labials (b, bh, p, m, f), changes to <span style="color: #008000;">ann am</span> [aNəm]. But, more importantly, the -n strengthens to a [N] or a [Nʲ] in front of vowels depending on whether the next vowel is broad or slender and jumps from the end of [aNəN ~ aNəNʲ] to the next word:
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@@ Loidhne 95: / Loidhne 95: @@
 Meaning? Well, the Old Irish word "in" fused with the definite article <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span>=the to give us the conjoined form <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, which also happened to prompt lenition. Actually, there were loads of different forms because Old Irish had three genders so it also had a feminine and neuter gender for <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span> and <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, plus a few extra cases. But that will do, for our purposes. This fusing process ultimately yielded the Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">sa(n)</span> and Gaelic <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span>. Further change caused <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> to drop the initial <span style="color: #6600CC;">i-</span> and the final <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> - and the result was <span style="color: #6600CC;">sin</span>. Bingo. The <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> only shows up in front of words which begin with an <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - don't ask why. And through further alteration, the  <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> turned up as a <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, in modern Gaelic.
-So, first riddle solved - the [[Ast-samhradhorThemysterioust-|seemingly mysterious t-]], that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
+So, first riddle solved - the [[As t-samhradh or The mysterious t-|seemingly mysterious t-]], that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
 But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably, when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we could have gotten *ann san, but we didn't. For the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.

@@ Loidhne 95: / Loidhne 95: @@
 Meaning? Well, the Old Irish word "in" fused with the definite article <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span>=the to give us the conjoined form <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, which also happened to prompt lenition. Actually, there were loads of different forms because Old Irish had three genders so it also had a feminine and neuter gender for <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span> and <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, plus a few extra cases. But that will do, for our purposes. This fusing process ultimately yielded the Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">sa(n)</span> and Gaelic <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span>. Further change caused <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> to drop the initial <span style="color: #6600CC;">i-</span> and the final <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> - and the result was <span style="color: #6600CC;">sin</span>. Bingo. The <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> only shows up in front of words which begin with an <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - don't ask why. And through further alteration, the  <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> turned up as a <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, in modern Gaelic.
-So, first riddle solved. Therefore, the weird <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, the [[Ast-samhradhorThemysterioust-|seemingly mysterious t-]], that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
+So, first riddle solved - the [[Ast-samhradhorThemysterioust-|seemingly mysterious t-]], that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
 But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably, when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we could have gotten *ann san, but we didn't. For the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.

@@ Loidhne 95: / Loidhne 95: @@
 Meaning? Well, the Old Irish word "in" fused with the definite article <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span>=the to give us the conjoined form <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, which also happened to prompt lenition. Actually, there were loads of different forms because Old Irish had three genders so it also had a feminine and neuter gender for <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span> and <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, plus a few extra cases. But that will do, for our purposes. This fusing process ultimately yielded the Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">sa(n)</span> and Gaelic <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span>. Further change caused <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> to drop the initial <span style="color: #6600CC;">i-</span> and the final <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> - and the result was <span style="color: #6600CC;">sin</span>. Bingo. The <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> only shows up in front of words which begin with an <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - don't ask why. And through further alteration, the  <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> turned up as a <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, in modern Gaelic.
-So, first riddle solved. Therefore, the weird <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span> that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
+So, first riddle solved. Therefore, the weird <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, the [[Ast-samhradhorThemysterioust-|seemingly mysterious t-]], that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
 But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably, when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we could have gotten *ann san, but we didn't. For the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.

@@ Loidhne 97: / Loidhne 97: @@
 So, first riddle solved. Therefore, the weird <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span> that shows up is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.
-But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably, when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we would have gotten *ann san. So, for the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.
+But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably, when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we could have gotten *ann san, but we didn't. For the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.
 Since the older <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span> did not have any competition the way <span style="color: #008000;">an</span> had, there was less pressure to add the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to it. So, at least in spoken Gaelic, <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> are just as common as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. Other than one exception, they work exactly the same way as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. The exception is that you can not have the short <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> in front of <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - so *sa t-sùil is not acceptable. However, it's fine with <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> so <span style="color: #008000;">san t-sùil</span> is acceptable.

@@ Loidhne 99: / Loidhne 99: @@
 But, back to <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>. Presumably when Gaelic added the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to <span style="color: #008000;">an</span>, it also did that in front of <span style="color: #008000;">san</span>, just to be consistent. So we would have gotten *ann san. So, for the same reason iss-ind runs of the tongue better than i-ssind, the s- crept back to the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> > <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>.
-Since the older <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span> did not have any competition the way <span style="color: #008000;">an</span> had, there was less pressure to add the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to it. So, at least in spoken Gaelic, <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> are just as common as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. Other than one exception, they work exactly the same way as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. The exception is that you can not have the short <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> in front of s - so *sa t-sùil is not acceptable.  However, it's fine with <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> so <span style="color: #008000;">san t-sùil</span> is acceptable.
+Since the older <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span> did not have any competition the way <span style="color: #008000;">an</span> had, there was less pressure to add the <span style="color: #008000;">ann</span> to it. So, at least in spoken Gaelic, <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> and <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> are just as common as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. Other than one exception, they work exactly the same way as <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span>. The exception is that you can not have the short <span style="color: #008000;">sa</span> in front of <spn style="color: #008000;">s</span> - so *sa t-sùil is not acceptable. However, it's fine with <span style="color: #008000;">san</span> so <span style="color: #008000;">san t-sùil</span> is acceptable.
 In colloquial Gaelic, there's a further simplification: <span style="color: #008000;">anns an</span> is often shortened to [ãsə]. In this case, note that the nasalisation of the [ã] is very important because without nasalization it sounds exactly the same as <span style="color: #008000;">ás a'</span> [asə] - "out of".

@@ Loidhne 93: / Loidhne 93: @@
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 |}
-Meaning?  Well, the Old Irish word "in" fused with the definite article <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span>=the to give us the conjoined form <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> which also happened to prompt lenition. Actually, there were loads of different forms because Old Irish had three genders to it also had a feminine and neuter gender for <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span> and <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> plus a few extra cases, but this will do, for our purposes. This fusing process ultimately yielded the Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">sa(n)</span> and the Gaelic <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span>. Change continued.  It took <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, dropped the initial <span style="color: #6600CC;">i-</span> and the final <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> and the result was <span style="color: #6600CC;">sin</span>. Bingo. The <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> only shows up in front of words which begin with an <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - don't ask why. And through another alteration, the  <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> actually turns up as a <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, in modern Gaelic.
+Meaning?  Well, the Old Irish word "in" fused with the definite article <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span>=the to give us the conjoined form <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, which also happened to prompt lenition. Actually, there were loads of different forms because Old Irish had three genders so it also had a feminine and neuter gender for <span style="color: #6600CC;">sind</span> and <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span>, plus a few extra cases. But that will do, for our purposes. This fusing process ultimately yielded the Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">sa(n)</span> and Gaelic <span style="color: #008000;">sa(n)</span>. Further change caused <span style="color: #6600CC;">issind</span> to drop the initial <span style="color: #6600CC;">i-</span> and the final <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> - and the result was <span style="color: #6600CC;">sin</span>. Bingo. The <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> only shows up in front of words which begin with an <span style="color: #008000;">s</span> - don't ask why. And through further alteration, the  <span style="color: #6600CC;">-d</span> turned up as a <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span>, in modern Gaelic.
 So, first riddle solved. The weird <span style="color: #008000;">t-</span> that shows up therefore is not random at all, just a remainder of something very old.