ADVERBS.

Adverbs express circumstances of quality, manner, time, place, &c. in nouns and verbs ; and a noun substantive or adjective becomes an adverb, by prefixing ar to the former, or go to the latter ; thus, ar ccul, back. or away ; go holc, badly.

Although a list of Adverbs belongs more properly to a Dictionary, it will not be amiss to mention some of the most common here.

The following Adverbial Particles, when united to words, give them a negative, intensitive, or reiterative character.

Negative, operating as aṁ, an, do, di, ead, eag, eas, mi, neaṁ.

Ex. ró prosperity, anró adversity; caraid a friend, eascraid an enemy.

Intensitives — an, gle, iom, ur; as granna ugly, ur-granna, very ugly. : the an is sometimes written without the A, before a vowel. Reiterative — aḋ, as buailte, beatn, aḋbuailte beaten again. in and ion betoken fitness or propriety, as deanta done, indeanta, proper to be done. .in, og, and eog are diminutives, when at the end of words. so signifies goodness, aptness, facility ; as soblaida well flavored; soleaġṫa fusible, from so leaġṫa fit to be fused. Coṁ denotes equality; as trom weigth, coṁtrom equal weight. Aṁ betokens similitude—it is from aṁuil.

The signs of the comparative and superlative degrees, and of the infinitive and other words, have been already noticed.

Mr. O'Brien says that these particles properly admit of no change in their orthography, on account of the poetical rule of caol re caol agus leaṫan re leaṫan already alluded to, in the composition of words.