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:. . Aeda—'.ID Tlic Linvs of A asUmt iit Irish.C. TERMINATIONS WITH X- AUMLAUT.VIII. an stood originally in the last syllable. The followinjfcases come liere under consideration :1. Seckt (seven), for secht-an; secht n-aisle (septem articuli) Z.303, 304; cf. Lith. sepfynl, Goth, sihun. That the vowel of thelast syllable, before it was dropped, was a broad one, is proved bythe modern spelling seaeht. In the same way, ocht may bereferred to ocht-an; ocht n-ahle (octo articuli). Cf. Lith.asstunl.In the followiiiy; case.s, an- was wuakeueil in prehistoric timeto en, in—2. N61 (nine), for vov-in ; voi iu-hut (nine cows); cf Goth.until, Lat. novem ; deich (ten), for dec-in; dcich m-hai (ten cows);cf Goth, taihun, Lat. decern. Ir. cdic (five) for cdc-i, i.e., quenqne= Old Gaul. pevi2)e-, Cymi-. pimp, shows just as little as Lat.quinque, Gr. TreVre, TrefXTre, an auslauting nasal, although it appearsin the Skr. stem pafican.3. Nom. and ace. sing, of the neuter stems iu n (Z. 2G8) ; e.g.,uimn n-abstil (nomen apostoli) in the Wtirzburg Codex; aimnn-Aeda in the Codex of the Cloister of St. Paul: ainrn for a prehistoricanm-in, anm-en (cf K.-Slav. ime).I do not hold this opinion as absolutely established ; for herealso the n following might have been introduced only after theanalogy of the neut. a-stems, as we have found already in the caseof the neufc. stems in -as and -i (B. IV., p. 80). In the samepoem, from which we have quoted ainvi n-Aeda, is found inrnainn-ainm . (beloved the name ... of Aed—Goid.,^ 178),with n after the neut. nom. sing, of an adjective z'-stem ; and likeFor, thethis n, the n after ainm might also be a transported one.neut. stems in » form in Sanskrit the nom. and ace. sing, without n(e.g., ndma, name). Here may also be quoted the Old Britishform Koupfxi, Kopma (Z. 115),i which at the same time manifestlyrepresents theprehistoricform of Ir. coirm,cwirm (beer; = corm-i),anil that without n in ausla.ut. This renders of more importancethe one passage, in the Codex of St. Gall, in which ainmdiles (nomen proprium) is written without n (Z. 209, 984).4. Stokes quotes (Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. i. 341) a dulim na n-didIn the oldest authority, Dioskorides (40-60 A.D.) Trep! CXt)! iarp«ijs ii. lio,the nominative is Kovpiu; the genitive in the heading is irepi Kovpiu.Oo$. Curmeiiis i)iobablv only a Latinised form.