brianeanna wrote: ↑June 7th, 2023, 7:25 amI've trimmed the beginning of the file and marked it "Ready for Spot PL".
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PL ok
In fact, there are many words that break the "caol le caol agus leathan le leathan" rule.
ok but I only had a very limited vocabulary list back in the days
these were the only two I came up with
Most (or all) are composite words, where the first unit ends in a broad consonant and the second unit begins with a slender consonant (and vice versa).
ah yes, maybe for composite words the rule doesn't need to be kept up, as each word could also have been written separately with a space or a dash. So it's not really the same as my examples.
The two examples you provide are interesting, in that there is only one consonant separating the units of the composite words. Consider also "aniar" (from the west). My ear tells me that the stressed second syllable imposes its broad or slender quality on the separating consonant, but that the alternative quality is permissible.
ok I see...so would you have read it differently if the rule was applied and the words were spelt: ainiar, airís and airéir ? My question was, why did the academy opt to not apply the rule in those words ?
We will probably never know.
"Arís" comes from the Middle Irish "[d]o-fhrithis", and "aréir", probably formed analogically, comes from the (Middle?) Irish "irráir," which is assumed to have come from "ír-fháir" and then become "aréir" by metathesis.
I see so originally those words also were composites. Yes that could be a reason. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this with me. I'm fascinated by linguistics, as you may have guessed by now.
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