N.
1. Plain. Broad: has no sound like it in English; nuadh new, naisg bind, lann a blade, carn a heap of stones.
2. Small: like n in the second syllable of opinion; as, nigh wash, binn melodious, cuirn heaps of stones.
3. Aspirated. Broad: like n in no, on; as, nuadh feminine of nuadh new, naisg bound, shnamh swam, sean old[[20]], chon of dogs, dàn a poem.
4. Small: like n in keen, near; as, nigh washed, shniomh twisted, coin dogs, dàin poems.
In an when followed by a Palatal, the n is pronounced like ng in English; as, an gille the lad, an comhnuidh always.
N, after a mute, is in a few instances pronounced like r[[21]]; as in mnathan women, cnatan a cold, an t-snàth of the yarn; pronounced mrathan, cratan, &c.