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==Changes to vowel-initial words== In environments where lenition occurs a vowel initial word remains unchanged: *{{Lang|ga|an oíche}} "the night" (feminine singular nominative noun after definite article) *{{Lang|ga|an uisce}} "of the water" (masculine singular genitive noun after definite article) *{{Lang|ga|ó Albain}} "from Scotland" (noun after leniting preposition) *{{Lang|ga|seanathair}} "grandfather" (noun after preposed adjective: {{Lang|ga|sean}} "old" + {{Lang|ga|athair}} "father") {{anchor|T-prothesis}}However, In environments where neither eclipsis nor lenition is expected, an initial vowel may acquire a [[Prothesis (linguistics)|prothetic]] consonant. For example, a vowel-initial masculine singular nominative noun requires a {{vr|t-}} (a [[Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives|voiceless coronal plosive]]) after the definite article: *{{Lang|ga|an '''t-'''uisce}} "the water" (masculine singular nominative) {{anchor|H-prothesis}}Additionally, there is the prothetic {{vr|h}} (a [[voiceless glottal fricative]]), which occurs when both the following conditions are met: #a proclitic causes neither lenition nor eclipsis of consonants. #a proclitic itself ends in a vowel. Examples of ''h''-prothesis: *{{Lang|ga|a '''h'''aois}} "her age" (after possessive pronoun {{Lang|ga|a}} "her"; compare with {{Lang|ga|a aois}}, "his age" and {{Lang|ga|a '''n-'''aois}}, "their age" with regular urú) *{{Lang|ga|go '''h'''Éirinn}} "to Ireland" (after preposition {{Lang|ga|go}} "to, towards") *{{Lang|ga|le '''h'''Antaine}} "with Antaine" (after preposition {{Lang|ga|le}} "with") *{{Lang|ga|na '''h'''oíche}} "of the night" (on feminine singular genitive noun after definite article) *{{Lang|ga|na '''h'''éin}} "the birds" (on plural nominative/dative noun after definite article) *{{Lang|ga|chomh '''h'''ard le caisleán}} "as high as a castle" (after ''chomh'' {{IPA|[xo]}} "as") *{{Lang|ga|go '''h'''álainn}} "beautifully" (after adverb-forming particle {{Lang|ga|go}}) *{{Lang|ga|Ná '''h'''imigh uaim}} "Don't leave me!" (after negative imperative particle {{Lang|ga|ná}} "don't") *{{Lang|ga|an dara '''h'''áit}} "the second place" (after an ordinal numeral)
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