Words and Proper Names

ní ba

1996.
Breatnach (R. A.): The periphrastic comparative in Eastern Gaelic.
In Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 1–6.
The particles used in the formation of the periphrastic comparative in all varieties of E Gaelic derive from a common source: pres. nas < OIr. a n-as; past/cond. na ba < < OIr. a mba.