II. WORDS COMPOUNDED WITH AN ADJECTIVE PREFIXED.
Uisge _water_, fior _true, genuine_--fioruisge _spring-water_.
Airgiod _silver_, beo _alive_--beo-airgiod _quick-silver_.
Sgolt _a crack_, crion _shrunk, decayed_--crionsgolt _a fissure in wood caused by drought or decay_.
Criochan _bounds, regions_, garbh _rough_--garbhchriochan _rude mountainous regions_. { 170}
_Adjectives Compounded with an Adjective._
Donn _brown_, dubh _black_--dubh-dhonn _dark-brown_.
Gorm _blue_, dubh _black_--dubh-ghorm _dark-blue_.
Briathrach (not in use) from briathar _a word_, deas _ready_--deas-bhriathrach _of ready speech, eloquent_.
Seallach (not in use) from sealladh _sight_, geur _sharp_--geur-sheallach _sharp-sighted_.
Ruith _to run_, dian _keen, eager_--dian-ruith _to run eagerly_.
Lean _to follow_, geur _sharp, severe_--geur-lean _to persecute_.
Buail _to strike_, trom _heavy_--trom-buail _to smite sore, discomfit_.
Ceangail _to bind_, dlùth _closer_--dlùth-cheangail _to bind fast_.
III. WORDS COMPOUNDED WITH A VERB PREFIXED.
Art _a stone_, tarruing _to draw_--tarruing-art _load-stone_.
Sùil _the eye_, meall _to beguile_--meall-shuil _a leering eye_.
Radh _a saying_, roimh _before_--roimh-radh _preface, prologue_.
Solus _light_, eadar _between_--eadar-sholus _twilight_.
Mìnich _to explain_, eadar-mhìnich _to interpret_.
Gearr _to cut_, timchioll _about_--timchioll-ghearr _circumcise_.
Lot _to wound_, troimh _through_--troimh-lot _to stab, pierce through_.
Examples of words compounded with an inseparable Preposition are already given in Part II. Chap. VII.
Compound Nouns retain the gender of the principal Nouns in their simple state. Thus crith-ghalar _palsy_, is masculine, because the principal Noun, Galar _distemper_, is masculine, although the accessary Noun crith, by which galar is qualified, be feminine. So cìs-mhaor is masculine though cìs be a feminine Noun, Luke xviii. 11; cìs-mheasadh ought also to be masculine, Acts v. 37. Except Nouns compounded with { 171} Bean _woman_, which are all feminine, though the simple principal Noun be masculine, because the compound word denotes an object of the female sex; as, oglach _a servant_, masculine, but banoglach _a maid-servant_, feminine, caraid _a friend_, masculine, bancharaid _a female friend_, feminine.