Words spelt in normal Gaelic orthography

In addition to the influence of Early Modern Irish on the representation of certain consonants in BDL, the MS contains words which are spelt entirely, or almost entirely, according to the conventions of Gaelic orthography.   The following list presents a selection of those which are detectable within the wider ballad corpus.

MS leacht (II, 6)

MS c^each [= creach] (III, 7)

MS locht (IV, 35)

MS rug (VI, 3)

MS deacha (VI, 104), deach (VI, 110), deac (VII, 1)

MS ocht (‘breast’) (VII, 44)

MS rachta (for racht) (VII, 42)

MS beact (in go beacht) (IX, 59)

MS a steach (XI, 44)

MS binn (XIII, 2)

MS s<p>rocht (XIII, 53)

MS ract (XIII, 48)

MS gleacht (XIII, 78, 92)

MS tlacht (XX, 103)