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——;Tlic Lmvs iij Aiifflant in I rink. !M(0 Creator of tlie elements) as voc. sing, of dulem (creator), gendiUeman. Perhaps tliis di'dirn is to be referred to a prehistoricdiUem-in (ef, Skr. rajan, king) ; but dulim may also be a laterspelling for nom. di'doi), [nud tliis is what I nqw believe.]ll.TEKMINATIONS WITH T-AUSLAUT.IX. at stood originally in auslaut.Of monosyllabic words, there is to be considered here the prep.CO, ciu (ad, usque ad; Z. 647), redu])licated in cucu-m (ad me),ciicu-t (ad te). This preposition terminated originally in a consonant,as shown by its not being followed by aspiration, and byits combining with the article to form cossin n-. This consonantwas t, as is proved by cudku (ad eos), which occurs alongsideof cucu. Therefore Ir. co = Gr. kut. The a of kuto. musthave been dropped in Irish very early, even before the laws ofauslaut began to operate.Of polysyllabic forms there come under consideration here :1. The 3rd sing. pres. ind. of the conjunct flexion of the 2ndconjugation ; e.g., no chant (amat), for prehistoric cara-at, carajat: cf. Horn. 6pun (witli primary personal termination). SeeExcursus ii. 9.2. The 3rd sing. couj. fel (sit), e.g., in the impersonal con-dumfcl(ut es.sem) Z. 491. This form stands for prehistoric vel-at, incontrast to the ind. Jil, feil, for prehistoric velt-i (or vel-it). Theroot is Europ. vel, Skr. var (to choose, to will). To see the correctnessof this etymology, one must know that Jil, conj. fel,governs the accusative, e.g., ni Jil mndi'^ nacliit charad (there isnot a woman who did not love thee). The Germ. " nicht gibt eseiue frau " (there is not a woman, lit. it gives not a woman) is acounterpart to this Irish idiom: "There chooses not," or " therewills not a woman." The form fel, however, for prehistoric vei-at,is a reliable example of conjunctive-formation with a short vowelin the stem, like Ved. re.sai, Horn, i'o/uec, e'l'Sofxev. As these standalongside of the indicative asti, ifxev, 'tSfxev, so fel stands alongsideof the indicative /iV, i.e., velti, Lat. volt. Cf Curtius' Verb. ii. 5.5Delbrlick's Altind. Verb. o7.In the following cases the original -at was weakened to -cf, -it,the slender vowel of which penetrated into the precedingsyllable :'MiuH is the iicc. .sing, of ben (woman). See A. 11. 3.