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by Ted Brian Neveln, Slighe nan Gaidheal
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Students of Gaelic use different textbooks and this table makes it easier to find similar topics from different books, especially since most of them do not have good indexes. Rows are sorted to match the Zero to Gaelic curriculum. Roman numerals stand for volume numbers in multi-volume works. Different books may use different terms for the same thing and this table tries to reconcile them while respecting the individual choices of the authors. A blank box may mean that the topic does not fit here easily or that I simply missed it. This table does not cover all the materials in these books, and many have special virtues not mentioned here. Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks has its own excellent index but is here because it is the textbook of Zero to Gaelic. Suggestions and corrections are welcome.
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concept |
Scottish Gaelic in 12 Weeks (Ó Maolalaigh) |
Scottish Gaelic in Three Months (Ó Maolalaigh) (Hugo Series) |
TAIC |
Teach Yourself Complete Gaelic (Robertson & Taylor) |
Teach Yourself Gaelic (Robertson & Taylor) |
Teach Yourself Gaelic (Roderick Mackinnon) |
Cothrom Ionnsachaidh (Ronald Black) |
Gàidhlig troimh Chòmhradh (Catrìona Parsons) (3 volumes) |
Seallagain (Catrìona Parsons) |
Scottish Gaelic (Muriel Fisher) (4 volumes) |
Colloquial Scottish Gaelic (Katherine Spadaro & Katie Grahm) |
Beginner's Gaelic (James MacLaren) |
Bun-Chursa Gàidhlig (Bill Blacklaw) |
spelling |
xiii-xxiii |
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xviii |
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3-6 |
I.25 |
5-6 |
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pronouns |
personal 1; possessive, 14; demonstrative 26 |
12 |
lesson 19 |
5-6, 12 |
16 |
5-6 |
22, 27, 205; emphatic, 21 |
I.12 |
2, 12 (emphatic endings) |
I.1; emphatic, I.13; and is, III.9; possessive, IV.11-13; relative, IV.22 |
thu/sibh, 10, 229; emphatic, 23, 49; possessive, 27. 229; demonstrative, 141; indefinite, 246 |
99-101 |
1 |
present tense of tha |
1, 9; 21; conditional 137; past 36; future 100 |
12 |
parsing 2, 3, lesson 1, 23; (passive) 51, parsing 2 |
6-7 |
17 |
tha, 5-7, 129, 208; imperative and subjunctive, 163-66 |
25-28 |
I.12 |
8-10 |
I.1; vs. is, IV.7-11 |
17, 96, 235 |
16-17, 40-48 |
to be present tense, 1 |
dependent form of the verb - a bheil, chan eil, nach eil |
4 |
15 |
parsing 2, 3, lesson 1; (gun+) lesson 15, 23; (if) 45 |
20 |
27-28 |
a bheil, chan eil, nach eil, 11-15, 129, 208 |
25-28 |
See above |
8-10 |
I.1 |
17, 235-36 |
17 |
a bheil, chan eil, nach eil, 1-2, 14-15 |
nouns and articles |
definite 20, 88-89; indefinite 2; gender 11; articles 11-12 |
definite, 34; indefinite, 13; gender, 23-24; articles, 23-24 |
summary 3, lesson 3, 6, 34, 37-39 |
19, 100-101 |
57-59 |
indeclinable and irregular nouns, 122-28 |
81-85 |
I.91-92; the, 90-9I. determining gender of nouns, I.6 |
40-54 |
I.22; definite, I.2 |
15, 40-1, 51,129-30, 228-29, 243-46; plurals 51 |
59-79 (chapters 23-26) |
nouns, definite and indefinite, 2-3 |
possession, to have, aig |
2-3, 5 |
14, 69; le, 70 |
lesson 12, 59 |
possession, 36-37 |
23-27 |
28-29, 66 |
I.7, 27, 3. I. le III-43-5 |
19-20 |
I.5 |
31-32 |
29-31 |
aig, 12 |
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yes and no |
4 |
yes and no, 15-16 |
lesson 1, 2, 24 |
20-21 |
- |
- |
yes and no, 22 |
yes and no, I.7 |
13, 30 |
- |
17-19 |
yes and no, 136-37 |
yes and no, 3 |
bha (past tense of tha) |
36 |
past tense of tha, 47-52 |
parsing 14, lesson 2, 23 |
134 |
past tense of tha, 117-119 |
208; indefinite pronouns, 87-90 |
past tense of tha, 55, 59 |
to be: past tense, I.26 |
8-10 |
I.9 |
66-67 |
past tense of tha, 19-21, 45-52 |
past tense of to be, 4 |
adverbs |
adverbs, 5; demonstrative adverbs, 27; adverbs of direction, 30-31; adverbs of quantity, 91 |
adverbs, 16-17; demonstrative adverbs, 38; adverbs of direction, 40-42; adverbs of quantity, 100-1 |
lesson 2, 10 |
302 |
254-55, 267 |
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sann+adverb, 57; adverbs of motion, 167 |
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13, glé 5, 14. adverbial clauses, 84 |
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242 |
115, 161-64 (thorough list) |
adverbs, 62-63 |
is and bu (assertive verb) |
8-9, 23, 43, 54 |
19-21, 34-36 |
parsing 6, 7, lesson 19 |
6-7, 84 |
17, 77 |
assertive form of verb to be, 28-35 |
21, 25, 27, 43 (best treatment) |
III.4-6 |
13, 20, 29, 31-34, 88 (copula) |
III.8, IV.50-51; bu, IV.51-53 (good treatment of idioms) |
70, 96 |
39-48 (good treatment) |
assertive verb, 40-42 |
possessive adjectives. See also possession |
14-15, 64 |
25; agam, 26 |
(mo) lesson 13; (-se) lesson 14 |
197-198 |
agam, 37; mo, 169 |
aig, 23-27; |
possessive pronouns, 37-40 |
I.44, 46, 90 |
19-20, 26-27; (aig), 56 |
I.5, I.7 |
27 |
possessive pronouns, 103-106 |
14-15 |
adjectives |
15-16, 26, 126-28 |
137-8, 151-4 |
summary 4, 7, lesson 4, 42, 43 |
59-60, 101-102, 140, 167-69, 183-86, 197-98. 217-18, 318-19 |
59; formation of, 91-92 |
140-48 |
22, 57, 100-6 |
II.7-8, II.55-62, II.92-93 |
5, 46, 49. comparison 86-89 |
I.1; opposites, III.28 |
18, 32-34, 46, 94,190-91, 232-34; comparison, 65 |
79-99 |
adjectives, 55-56 |
glè and ro |
17 |
ro (too) and glé, 28 |
lesson 2 |
glè, 18; ro, 119, 139 |
glè, 26; ro, 122 |
glé and ro, 12 |
glé, 33 |
glé, I.23, 26 |
5, 14 |
I.1 |
34, 140 |
- |
glè and ro, 3-4 |
verbal nouns |
21-22, 113-14 |
31-33, 123-4 |
lesson 8 |
72 |
68 |
16, 129-35 |
112-13 |
- |
13-14 |
I.4 |
19, 129-30 |
143-45 |
8-9, 19-21 |
zero to twenty |
29, 112, 129-31 |
numerals, 39-40, 139-41 |
(1-30) lesson 31, 54 |
30-32, 35, 339 |
numbers, 35-36, 60 |
numerals, 154-62 |
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na nuimhirean, I.71-72 |
77-80 |
I.3, I.21 |
50, 68-76; ordinals, 113-14 |
- |
(1-30), 17-18 |
days of the week |
32; dates 131 |
days, 42-43 |
lesson 33 |
69 |
days, 65, 327-28 |
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days of the week, 51, 23, 32, 44; |
days of the week, I.26; months, I.81 |
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I.10 |
97 |
numbers, 92-97 |
days of the week, 17 |
months, seasons, and holidays |
32-33, 79-81 |
89-90 |
lesson 33 |
of year, 138-139; years, 264-65 |
121-22 |
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months, 51-52 |
- |
- |
months, II.1; seasons, I.20 |
204-6; months, 101 |
- |
- |
past tense of regular verbs |
dependent regular verbs, 74; independent regular verbs, 72-73 |
dependent regular verbs, 84; independent regular verbs, 81-82 |
lesson 24, 53; (past participles) lesson 16; (passive of all tenses) lesson 51-53, suppl. 3 |
134-38 |
117-21 |
43-48 |
127 |
II.4, 21 |
24-25 |
II.8-9 |
164; 183-84, 238-40 |
124-26 |
past tense of regular verbs, 19-21 |
imperatives |
41-42 |
52-54 |
lesson 16 |
commands, 70 |
commands, 67 |
imperative moods, 163-66; vocative case, 171-74 |
112 |
II.3-6 |
3, 9, 24-25 |
III.6 |
111, 154, 174-75 |
132-33, 136 |
imperatives, 15-17 |
irregular verbs |
irregular conditional, 167-68; irregular future, 117-21; irregular past tense, 37-39 |
irregular conditional, 176-77; irregular future, 127-28; irregular past tense, 48-52 |
parsing 4, 5, 10-12, lesson 25, 27; (passive) parsing 10-14; (conditional) 30 |
278-79 |
four verbs: roots, past and future and interrogatives, 134; ten verbs, 234 |
210-19; (most irregular verbs are sneaked in.) |
165-69, 180, 184 , 189, 196, 198, 203 |
II.7, III.7 |
57-68 |
beir, IV.3; cluinn, IV.4-5; dean, IV.42-43; faic and thoir, III.18-20; faigh, IV.44-45: rach and abair, III.12-13; ruig, IV.6-7; thig, IV.45-46; thoir, II.13 |
240-42 |
138-41 |
irregular verbs, 21-22 |
sann |
56-58, 146 |
67-69 |
lesson 19 |
349-50 |
- |
- |
57, 60, 140 (best treatment) |
I-67; III.5 |
29 |
IV.10-11 |
96 |
- |
41 |
simple prepositions. See also prepositional pronouns |
62, 93-96, 184 |
prepositions, 73, 132-33, 135, 195 |
summary 1-2, lesson 5, 59-62; (augmented) 17; (non-dative) lesson 47 |
171, à, às, 7; aig, 32-33; air, 33-34, 199-200; ann, 19-20; a/do, 18-19; gu, 118; le, 44-45, 351, 355; mu, 121, 171-72; tro, 216 |
preposition, 148; a, 17; aig, 37; air, 38; ann, 87-88; do, 75-76; gu, 105; le, 47; mu, 107, 149; ro, 105-6 |
17-18; aig, an ann, 30; 23-27; ann, 12; le, 28-35 |
prepositions, 66-73 (best treatment of propositions) |
- |
14, 16-19 |
chart, II.16; emphatic endings, IV.60; list, III.29, IV.46-49, IV.58-59 |
230-32; à 165; ann 101, 148; do 39-40; gu 180; le 35, 77, 187 |
prepositions, 102, 153-61 |
simple prepositions, 4-5 |
dative case (prepositional case) |
prepositional case, 67 |
prepositional case, 78-80 |
lesson 6-7, 37-38 |
166-68 |
dative case of nouns, 103-4 |
17-18; feminine dative, 36-42 |
66-74 (Note: Black concentrates more on noun forms than on cases) |
II.92-93 |
17, 40-46, 49-50, 78, 82-83 |
I.23-24 |
129-30 |
60, 63, 76, 84-85, 153, |
dative case, 27-9 |
interrogative \ question words & required verb forms |
ciamar?, 6, 78; có?, 5, 8, 78; dé?, 22, 78; có ás?, 5; verbal particles ciamar a / cuine a?, 78 |
ciamar?, 17; có?, 19, 135-36; dé? 33, 67; có ás?, 16; verbal particles ciamar a / cuine a?, 85-86 |
lesson 22, 45 |
negative, 73; permission, 82-83; returning, 8 |
131, 147 |
83-86 |
135-41 (good treatment) |
no single location |
8-11, 85-86 |
answering, I.14; future tense, I.19; is (assertive), III.10; past tense, I.9; present tense, I.6 |
18-19, 115-16 |
co, ciod, cia, de, 48, 113 |
cò, dè, ciamar, carson, cuin, càit, 11 |
telling time |
clock, 79-80, 97-98 |
clock, 106-7 |
lesson 32 |
213 |
time, 47-48, 181-82 |
Dé'n uair a tha e?, 179-84 |
telling the time, 74 |
an t-uaireadair, I.73-76 |
81 |
II.2-3 |
78-81 |
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telling time, 18-19 |
genitive case singular of masculine nouns |
88-90, 108-9, 111 |
94-106 (good treatment) |
lesson 34, 36-37 |
114-16 |
genitive case, 101-3 |
genitive case of masculine nouns, 91-104; augment "a" in genitive singular, 117-21 |
66-71 |
II.72-75, II.92-93 |
40-41, 49-52, 55 |
III.23-24 |
129-30, 170, 201, 245-46 |
63-79 (best treatment of genitives) |
genitive case singular of masculine nouns, 30-2 |
genitive case singular of feminine nouns |
88-90, 108-9, 111 |
94-106 |
lesson 35-37 |
114-116 |
101-3 |
genitive case singular of feminine nouns,105-16; augment "a" in genitive singular, 117-21 |
66-71 |
See above |
40-41, 49-52, 55 |
II.23-24 |
129-30, 170, 201, 245-46 |
63-79 |
genitive case singular of feminine nouns, 32-3 |
genitive plural of nouns |
92-96, 108-9, 111 |
94-106 (good treatment) |
lesson 39 |
- |
101-3, 146 (scanty treatment) |
genitive case of masculine nouns, 91-104; genitive case singular of feminine nouns,105-16 |
80-86 |
noun declensions (clàran-ainmear), I.92-93; II.92-93 |
40-41, 49-52, 55 |
I.23-24 |
129-30, 245-46 |
50, 61, 64-71 |
genitive plural of nouns, 47 |
personal names |
proper names, 84 |
proper names, 58-59 |
summary 6 |
forenames, 198-99, 420-21; surnames, 2-3, 230-31, 282, 421-22 |
forenames, 170-1, 340; surnames, 196, 341-2; vocatives, 15-16, 76-77, 101 |
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names, 53, 65-66 |
I.7; proper names, I.13-14 |
6-7 |
I.27 |
15-16 |
names, 77-79 |
Christian names, 5 |
towns and countries |
132-33 |
countries, 142-43 |
summary 5 (links to other resources) |
98 |
geographic features, 41-42; hill names, 127 |
- |
place-names, 86-7, 102-3; [maps, 53, 86, 156, 158, 163] |
III.85-7 |
17 |
countries, I.23-24 |
170-71; Alba, 121; Edinburgh 167-68 |
adverbs of place, 163 |
towns and countries, 48-50 |
names of places, etc. |
See above |
See above |
summary 5 (links to other resources) |
7-8, 21, 37-9, 416-19 |
housenames, 113; placenames, 41-42, 127 |
- |
- |
New Zealand III.88 |
17 |
geography, II.10, 16-18 |
170-71 |
See above |
placenames, 7-8 |
compound prepositions and prepositions taking cases other than dative |
composite prepositions, 93-95 |
composite prepositions, 102-5 |
lesson 47, summary 2 |
(scanty treatment) |
102, 137 (scanty treatment) |
compound prepositions, 140-48 |
117, 188 |
II.46-50 |
55-56 |
IV.13-16 |
175-76 |
160-61 (good list but dated) |
compound prepositions and prepositions taking cases other than dative, 60-62 |
conjunctions |
104-5 (good treatment) |
114-15 (good treatment) |
lesson 23, 25, 30, 41, 48 |
(no separate treatment) |
(no separate treatment) |
nas, na (than), 149-53 |
verbal particles, 135-38; because, 201-3 |
III.11-13 |
38-39, 83-84; (agus) 86 |
I.2, III.3-4; conditional mood, IV.29 |
- |
112, 165-66 (good list) |
conjunctions, 69-70 |
future tense of tha (to be) |
100 |
110 |
parsing 2, 3, lesson 9 |
153 |
133-34 |
49-56, 208 |
153 |
I.36, II.5-6, 37, 40-42 |
8-9 |
I.19 |
235 |
24-25 |
bithidh, 8-9 |
-(a)idh form regular verbs (future tense) |
regular verbs: future, 100-1 |
regular verbs: future, 110-12 |
lesson 26 |
153-54 |
133-34 |
regular verb in future tense, 49-56 |
future/immediate, 153-54 |
II.5-6, II.36-8 |
34-36 |
III.2 |
239-40 |
future tense, 126-29 |
future tense of irregular verbs, 35-37 |
-(a)idh form irregular verbs (future tense) |
irregular verbs: future, 117-21 |
irregular verbs: future, 127-29 |
lesson 27, parsing 4 |
154-55, 297 |
regular, 134 |
- |
future/immediate, 153-54. See also under irregular verbs |
See above |
61-64 |
- |
161 |
future tense, 126-29 |
future tense of irregular verbs, 35-37 |
-(e)as form of the verb (relative future) |
100-1 |
relative future, 110-12 |
lesson 21-22, 28 |
156, 212 |
135, 181 |
regular verb in future tense, 49-56, 80 |
có- type phrases (relative future), 135-39, 141 (best treatment of relative future and relative clauses in chapters 12 and 13 |
I.35, II.5-6, 37, 40, 42; II.36-38; III.10-11 |
9, 37, 83 |
questions, I.19; regular verbs, III.3 |
132-33 |
126-28 |
relative form of the verb, 37-8 |
a, nach, na relative pronouns |
direct relative pronoun, 76,78, 120, 145 |
direct relative pronoun, 131-32, 154-56 |
lesson 21-22 |
See relative future below |
no separate discussion. |
demonstrative and relative pronouns, 79-82 |
có-type and nach-type particles, 135-37 (best treatment of relative clauses) |
relative pronouns, I.43; relative clauses (roinntean dàimheach) III.10-11 |
10-11, 32, 82-85 |
IV.22 |
- |
25, 109-13 |
relative pronouns, 42-3 |
prepositional pronouns |
3, 178; air, 64; le, 59; ri, 73; do, 44, 74 |
26, 188, 195; air, 74-75; le, 70-72; ri, 83-84; do, 83-84 |
summary 1, lesson 12, 18, 45 |
See preposition above |
air, 38; le, 46-47, 294; ri, 48-49, 148, See also chapter 7. |
table of, 222-23 |
prepositional pronouns, 29, 57, 164; air, 73; le, 59; ri, 126 |
air, I.36; le, I.44, III.43; ri, I.54 |
19-22 |
air, I.13-14; le/leis, I.17 |
231-32 |
prepositional pronouns, 101-103; air, 36; le, 47-48, 151-52, ri, 147, 158; |
air, le, ri, 23-24 |
numbers 20-99 |
129; personal, 148 |
139-41; personal, 158 |
(30+) lesson 44, 54 |
money, 61 |
36; money, 60 |
numerals, 154-62 |
32, 44 |
I.70-78 |
77-80 |
(11-100), I.21 |
71 |
92-97 |
numbers over thirty, 4 |
-adh, -ainn form of regular verbs (subjunctive / conditional) |
regular conditional/past habitual, 135-37 |
regular conditional, 145-48 |
lesson 29, 55 |
330-33 |
conditional tense of regular verbs, 277-79 |
subjunctive mood, 163-66 |
conditional tense, 144-46 |
conditional (an tràth claon), II.6, II.63, III.6-7 |
37-39 |
IV.33-37; IV.53-57 |
240 |
- |
subjunctive tense (regular verbs) 39-40 |
-adh, -ainn form of irregular verbs (subjunctive / conditional) |
regular conditional/past habitual, 167-68 |
irregular conditional/past habitual, 176-78 |
parsing 12, lesson 30 |
333-35 |
conditional, 279-81 |
- |
conditional tense, 144-46 |
See above |
65-69, 71-73 (passive), 76-77, 83 |
5.33-37; IV.53-57 |
240 |
subjunctive, 129-31 |
subjunctive tense (irregular verbs) 39-40 |
subjunctive (conditional, imperfect) tense of to be |
tha conditional/past habitual, 137 |
tha conditional/past habitual, 147 |
parsing 2, lesson 11 |
314-16, 321 |
263-66 |
208; tha, imperative and subjunctive, 163-66 |
conditional tense, 144 |
II.6, 63, III.6, 10 |
33-34 |
IV.29-33 |
236 |
to be in the subjunctive, 21-22 |
bhithinn, bhitheadh tu, 9-10 |
ma, nan, mur (if, if not) |
76, 138-39 |
86, 148-50 |
lesson 48 |
74 |
ma / mur eil, 69; nam / mura, 265-66 |
a (relative pronoun), 30; ma, na, 50; as, nas, 149-50 |
136-37, 164 |
III.11 |
38-39, 83-84 |
III.3-4 |
- |
122-23, 130 |
if in Gaelic, 59-60 |
comparison of regular adjectives |
141-42 |
151-54 |
lesson 43 |
217-18 |
159-60, 185-86 |
149-53 |
181-84 |
III.13-15, 32, 37, 53, 57 |
86 |
III.26 |
233-34 |
88-90 |
comparison of regular adjectives, 57-58 |
comparison of irregular adjectives |
142-43 |
152 |
lesson 43 |
- |
159 |
149-53 |
181-84 |
III.13-15, 32, 37, 53 |
86-89 |
III.26 |
233-34 |
91 |
comparison of irregular adjectives, 58-59 |
dependent clauses gun (that) |
76-78, 144-45 |
85-88, 154-56 |
lesson 15 |
170, 245-46 |
147, 2078 |
175-78 |
137, 140 |
I.16,23 et passim |
83-84 |
IV.23-24 |
182-84 |
gu'n, 112,123 |
14-15 |
nominal inversion |
155-56 |
165-66 |
(word order reversal) lesson 20, 40 |
263-64 |
223 |
- |
inverted nominal, 117. (Only detailed treatment) |
- |
74-77 |
nominal inversion, IV.24-27 |
169-70 |
- |
- |
compound tenses |
perfect, 158-60 |
perfect, 168-72 |
lesson 49 |
air, 199-200 |
air, 171-72 |
- |
189-94 |
II.6-7; III.8-9 |
23-24 |
- |
- |
149 |
compound tenses, 67-69 |
('gam/'nam) (prepositional possessive adjectives) |
('gam/'gad, 114. ('nam / 'nad), 51 |
('gam/'gad), 123-24, 166, ('nam / 'nad), 62, 65 |
summary 2, lesson 17 |
('gam/'gad), 85; ('nam/'nad), 261-63 |
direct objects: pronouns, 78-9 |
prepositional possessives, 136-39 |
('gam/'gad), 116-17, ('nam/'nad), 47-48, 206 |
I.27, ('gam/'gad), I.53-54, II.18; ('nam/'nad), I.74, II.17, III.48; |
27-28 , |
(nam/nad), IV.16-18; (gam/gad), IV.18-19; dol ga, IV.42 |
90-2, 230-31 |
('gam/'gad), 51, 106, 146. ('nam/'nad) 106-8 |
prepositions aig and ann with possessive adjectives, 24-5 |
defective verbs. (Nominal Inversion is a related concept) |
177-78; modal verbs, 152; inversion, 155-56 (best treatment) |
modal adjectives, 162, 186-87; inversion, 165-66 (best treatment) |
(incomplete verbs), lesson 20, 40, 50; (passive) 52 |
faod, 82-83; feum, 156-57 |
faodaidh, 76; feumaidh, 136 |
irregular and defective verbs, 175-78; 220-21 |
feum and faod, 167-68 |
II.30, III.23 |
68-70 |
faod, II.12; feum, I.5 |
- |
verbs, 150-53 (thorough list) |
defective verbs, 64-65 |
adjectives declining with nouns |
15-16, 126-28 |
- |
4, summary 4 |
167-69 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
41-43, 46, 49-50 |
I.1 |
232 |
- |
- |
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