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Cairn Chonsan le “sf-“ agus “sv-“ Posted by on Jan 23, 2011

In this blog, we don’t have to deal with the question of “séimhiú” or “gan séimhiú” since the consonant clusters “sf-“ and “sv-“ are never lenited.  But they’re intriguing nonetheless, so let’s take a further look.  I recently mentioned “sfioncs” and “svaeid,” as samplaí.  Those two words comprise about cúig faoin gcéad of the total…

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