§53. — Prepositions

There are many simple prepositions, such as ag, at; air, upon; ann, in, &c.; and these again,with nouns, form compound prepositions; as aġaiḋ, the face; anaġaiḋ, in the face, against, &c.

The following prepositions generally aspirate the initial mutable of the nouns they govern: —

Ann, in, and iar, after, eclipse the intial mutable. The original form of iar was iarn, vid. §35.

Le, with or through, and o, from, in the modern language prefix h to nouns beginning with a vowel; as riġne mé sin le heala, I did that through fear.

§54. — Conjunctions

Conjunctions are simple and compound: simple, as go, that; agus, and; and the compound are those compounded of different parts of speech, forming a sort of conjunctional phrase, do ḃriġ, because; uime sin, therefore.

For the influence of certain conjunctions upon the initial of the words that follow them, vid. §35.

§55. — Interjections

The following are a few of the more uusual interjections: —

A and o, it must be observed, aspirate the initial mutable of the noun to which they are prefixed.