Eclipsis in the Irish Language
This table shows how a word is affected by eclipsis. If a word begins with a letter not listed below, it is not changed.
|Initial consonant||Eclipsed form||Pronunciation|
|f||bhf||w (broad), v (slender) *|
* See the section on pronunciation for an explanation of this sound.
Tip: When there's an unpronounceable consonant pair at the beginning of a word, usually only the first consonant is pronounced.