Uhlich, Jürgen, “Loch nEchach n-án: Nasalierungsübertragung in den altirischen Glossen und späteren Quellen”, in: Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, and Gordon Ó Riain (eds), Lorg na leabhar: a Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach, Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2019. 13–38.
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Middle Irish cases like Loch nEchach n-án 'shining Loch nEchach' show nasalization of the final word of the phrase that cannot have been caused by the immediately preceding word. While frequently the second word is nasalized, too, the n- of n-án etc. cannot be analysed as 'doubled' from the preceding nEchach etc., contrast Old Irish cases in which the second word cannot be nasalized phonologically, as in dliged rechto ndǽ 'of the rules of the law of God', or the nasalization is clearly absent, as in déde didiu nand 'two things, then, are therein'. Therefore, the nasalization of the final word has rather been transferred directly from the headword. An analogous transference of nasalization is found across the numeral '2', cf. Middle Irish a (n)da n-ara 'their two charioteers'. This transference to the stressed final word of the phrase can be derived from the fact that '2' is proclitic, and comparison with Old Irish shows that in other contexts, too, nasalization was largely confined to the anlaut of stressed words. This explanation is applicable to words other than '2' by positing that any stressed word could become secondarily proclitic when followed by another word that carried the main stress of the entire phrase. This process of secondary de-stressing is frequently revealed elsewhere in Early Irish and later sources either orthographically or metrically. On this basis, various further Old Irish attestations with a nasalization that cannot be justified by the immediate context may be explained, such as i ndegaid n- 'after' with irregular nasalisation after the dative degaid.
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