Litera est igitur nota ylementi17 et uelut imago quaedam uocis literatae, quae cognoscitur ex qualitate18 uel quantitate19 figurae linearum20. Hoc ergo interest inter ylementa21 uel literas22, quod elementa proprie dicuntur ipsae pronuntiationes23, notae autem earum literae. Abussiue24 tamen et elementa pro literis et literae pro elementis uocantur. Cum enim dicimus non posse25 constare26 in eadem syllaba r ante p, non de literis27 dicimus, sed de pronuntiatione earum28, 29: nam quantum30 ad scripturam possunt coniungui, non tamen etiam pronuntiari, nisi postpossita r31.
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Sunt igitur figurae1 literarum quibus nos2 utimur uiginti tres, ipsae uero pronuntiationes3 earum multo ampliores, quippe cum singulae uocales denos4, 5 inueniantur sonos habentes uel plures, … … hámus6…
17: .i. not inchoisc .i. pronuntiationis .i. in chumachtai ⁊ indfogair18: .i. ind tóraind .i. cruindæ ꝉ dirge ꝉ uocalis ꝉ consonans19: .i. oméit diflescaib bís hisin tórunt .i. mad óenflesc is ·i· mad[1] diḟlisc is ·n· reliqua20: .i. innangláosnathe[2] ꝉ innafuath .i. ishé ingloṡnáthe caractar innaliter21: .i. cumachtai[3]22: carachtra23: .i. derbaisṅdísin · derbḟogir24: .i. ind húadairberthach bith[4]25: .i. archuit aisṅdisen ⁊ foguir26: .i. hitosug ṡuin27: ní dichárachtraib28: .i. is archuit foguir ní ruba nand ní archuit scríbind29: [marg.] stirps uinse[5] ·r· ante ·p· and sudet qui legat ·⏑30: .i. meit as ṅdo scríbund31: .i. an as niarmuídigthe[6] ·r· ut pro reliqua
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1: .i. inna tóranda2: laitnorib3: .i. fogair4: .i. deichthi5: cóic deich cóica6: .i. ǽcath
17. i.e. a note of signification, i.e. of pronunciation, i.e. of the power continued and of the sound.18. i.e. of the figure, i.e. roundness or straightness.19. i.e. from the quantity of strokes in the figure, i.e. if it be one stroke it is an i, if two strokes it is an n, etc.20. i.e. of the lines or of the forms, i.e. the character of the letters is the figure[7].21. i.e. powers.22. characters.23. i.e. certain precise pronunciations, certain precise sounds.25. i.e. as regards pronunciation and sound.26. i.e. in the beginning of a word.28. i.e. it is as regards sound that it cannot be, not as regards writing.29. stirps: here is r before p therein.30. i.e. as far as writing.31. i.e. when r is postponed, as (in) pro, etc.
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2. (we) Latins[8].5. five tens, fifty.
- ↑ Here by a kind of sandhi, mat has become mad before the d of dí. So in Wb. 1c10, ad drogduine from at drogduine, and conatarad Dair, LL. 77a6, from conatarat Dair
- ↑ MS. innaglaosnaithe
- ↑ rectius cumachtae
- ↑ coined to express ab-usiue
- ↑ uinse (inse Ascoli) = uinnsi .i. atá, O’Cl. huinse Conall Cernach sund LL. 252c31, unse a ben lasin ríg, ondat a bai issin tír ar far ṁbelaib ‘here is his wife with the king, here are his cows in the country before you,’ LL. 252a14, undseo LL. 100a3, undsea 101a1, 2, unnse, unnsi, ondar B.Ball. 320b18
- ↑ leg. niarsuidigthe?
- ↑ cf. quae est figura litterarum? caractera quibus scribuntur etc., Clemens Scotus (Suppl. Gramm. Lat. xxxiii.).
- ↑ Cf. ar preceptorib Wb. 19a3, etc. Pedersen Celt. Zeitschr. ii. 379
