ċ (múrirgach). We have met no term answering to merman.
[437] It is a rule of the Irish language, that the initial consonant of an oblique case, or of a word in regimine, becomes aspirated; thus Pooka (nom.), na Phooka (gen.), mac son, a mhic (vic) my son.
[438] In Irish lob
c
(lubárkin); the Ulster name is Logheryman, in Irish loċ