a fem. noun in the nom. voc. or acc. sg., or a masc. noun in the gen. or voc. sg., or nom. pl. ending in a cons. is regularly aspd.
ECLIPSIS.
(See An Cónggar, pt. 1, p. 16.)
The following words cause eclipsis of the initial letter of the next word in the sentence:—a, an, the interrogative particle; the prep. a, ‘in’; the poss. adjs. a, ‘their,’ ár, ‘our,’ úr, ‘your’; the rel, a governed by a prep., a, ‘all that’; the conjcts. dá, ‘if’; go, ‘until,’ ‘that’; sar a, ‘ere,’ ‘before’; the article preceded by any of the simple preps., except den, don, and sa, san, ‘in the,’ ‘into the,’ which generally aspirate.
THE ATTENUATION OF r.
r is usually attenuated after an aspirating word.
PREFIXING t TO WORDS BEGINNING WITH VOWELS.
The article in the nom. and acc. sg. masc. prefixes t to words beginning with a vowel.
CHANGE OF s AND sh INTO t.
Initial s and sh become t after the article in the nom. and acc. sg. fem., gen. sg. masc. and sometimes dat. sg. masc. or fem.; and after än, ‘one’ or ‘any.’
PREFIXING h TO WORDS BEGINNING WITH VOWELS.
h- is prefixed to words beginning with vowels after a, ‘her’; na, ‘the,’ before gen sg. fem. and nom. and acc. pl.; the preps. le, ‘with,’ go, ‘to,’ and à (=as) ‘out of’; trí, ‘three,’ shé, ‘six,’ chô, ‘so’ or ‘as’; the negative particle ná; ní, the neg. of is; therel. part. a and do and the neg. parts ní and nár before autonomous forms.
