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;92 77«_' Lav.v of Aadant in Irish.1. The 3rd sing. pies. ind. of the conjunct flexiou of the 1stconjugation (= Lat. 3rd conjugation).This form has a secondarypersonal termination, as has been ah'eady pointed out in theBeiti". viii. 450.Old Ir. 910 h(-'ir ((urt), for prehistoric her-it, cf. Skr. abhurdtnot ail (alit te), for prehistoric al-it ; ni ib (he drinks not), forprehistoric {p)ib-it, = Lat. bibit. Cf. B. I. 7. The same primitiveforms have been inferred also by Stokes (Beitr. zur Yergl.Spr. vi. 405).In the same way is formed the 3rd sing, of the ^-preterite; e.g.,birt (she brought forth), for prehistoric bert-it; cf Gr. eKoirre(Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. viii. 451). But most verbs have in thistense a, also e, in the root-syllable, without i penetrating into it(Z. 455). Either the -at had not been here so decidedly weakenedto -it, or the double consonants {rt, It, cht) prevented thepenetrating of i.The 3rd sing, of the conjunct-flexion of the .s-future has suffereda specially remarkable mutilation. This tense is formed in Irishin a way similar to that in which it is formed in Greek, only thatin Irish it is limited to the roots with a guttural, a dental, or sin auslaut. A guttural or a dental with s becomes in Irish ss, or.s\ The 2rid sing. fut. of the conjunct-flexion of tiagaivi (o-Te/xw)according to rule, is t/is, for prehistoric t&s-is, of which the correspondingform in Greek would bo * crrei^e?. Likewise, in the 3rdsing, we should expect t(^is for prehistoric teas-it ; but, generally,this has been mutilated to tei, te (Z. 467). Consequently, eventhe Aft', s, has also been dropped, which has otherwise happenedonly in the ease of a primitive final ss, e.g., ri, = Lat. rex, a fromass = e^, Lat. ex.2. The nom. and ace. sing, tmig (foot) Z. 255, for prehistorictrag-it. Ebel, in Beitr. i. 170, took this word as a neuter. Traigwould, therefore, correspond in its formation to Skr. bharat, theneuter of the participle. Cf. Beitr. ii. 08. [A very doubtful case.]e. TERMINATIONS WITH VOCALIC AUSLAUT.The word-forms coming here under consideration, have thepeculiarity that, in certain positions, they aspirate the anlautof the following word.X. o, stood originally in the last syllable.1. The 1st pers. sing, of the reduplicated perfect. See Ztschr.fur Vergl. Spr. xxiii. 229. E.g., con-dare (conspexi), for pre-