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dʹeirʹkʹə, ‘alms’, O.Ir. deirce; ïmʹirʹkʹə, ‘removing’, M.Ir. immirce, immirge; kɔrʹkʹə, ‘oats’, Meyer coirce; iʃkʹə, ‘water’, O.Ir. uisce.
§ 421. kʹ appears for gʹ in Lα꞉rʹikʹ, ‘thigh’, Macbain làirig, M.Ir. laarg, O.Ir. loarcc. Here kʹ may be due to the plural form Lα꞉rʹikʹαχə, but this explanation will not hold good in other cases where Donegal seems to prefer final kʹ to gʹ. The words in question are ge꞉lʹikʹ, ‘Irish’, M.Ir. goedeilg (in this word the voiceless sound is wide-spread, e.g. in the Isle of Man and Waterford, cp. Henebry p. 64); No̤Likʹ, ‘Christmas’, Di. nodlaig (Finck has kʹ); kαrikʹ, ‘rock’, Di. Macbain carraig (Finck has gʹ); pα꞉drikʹ, ‘Patrick’, Pádruig (Finck has gʹ); henʹikʹ, ‘came’, Di. tháinig, partly influenced by henʹikʹ, ‘saw’. kɔʃrʹikʹi꞉m, ‘I consecrate’, Di. coisreacaim, with kʹ from the participle kɔʃrʹəkə which is the commonest form of the verb used.
§ 422. kʹ arises in futures and past participles from gʹ + h (< fh, th), e.g. Lʹikʹə mʹə, ‘I shall let’; tʹrʹeikʹə, ‘abandoned’.
§ 423. kʹ appears instead of k in kʹlʹuw, ‘fame’, O.Ir. clú, kʹlʹu꞉tʹαχ, ‘famous’, Scotch G. cliù; kʹi꞉mwælʹ, ‘to worry, contend’, Di. ciomaim < Engl. comb.
11. g.
§ 424. This symbol denotes the voiced sound corresponding to k for which see § 409.
§ 425. Initially g corresponds to O.Ir. g before the vowels a, o, u or preceding l, r, n, followed by these vowels, e.g. gαd, ‘switch’, M.Ir. gat; gα꞉rʹə, ‘a laugh’, M.Ir. gáire; gα꞉wuw, ‘jeopardy’, M.Ir. gábud; gerʹidʹ, ‘short’, O.Ir. garit; ge꞉lʹikʹ, ‘Irish’, M.Ir. goedeilg; gɔlər, ‘disease’, O.Ir. galar; go꞉, ‘smith’, O.Ir. goba; g⅄꞉, ‘wind’, O.Ir. gáith; gö̤꞉r, ‘hound’, M.Ir. gagar, gadar; gyrʹimʹ, ‘call’, M.Ir. gairm; gy꞉, ‘beseech’, O.Ir. gude, guide; glαn, ‘clean’, O.Ir. glan; grui, ‘cheek’, M.Ir. gruad; grα꞉χ, ‘usual’, = gnáthach < O.Ir. gnáth.
The eclipsed form of k is g, e.g. mər gydʹ, ‘your share’; ə gαhærʹ, ‘in a city’; erʹ gu꞉l, ‘back, behind’, cp. jiərəgu꞉l, ‘remote spot’, Di. iargcúil. The prefix con- further causes this change in old compounds with initial c, e.g. ko̤gər, ‘whisper’, M.Ir. cocur = con-cur; kαgnuw, ‘to chew’, M.Ir. cocnam = con-cnám; ko̤gu꞉s, ‘conscience’, O.Ir. cocubus. See also next paragraph.
