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—^•iTIte Laivs of Auslaut in Irisli.E.g.,berid, for prehi.stoiic beref-i ~ (h: (pepere, cf. L&t. feHe ;'ibid (drink ye), for prehistoric pihel-i = Lat. bibite.6. lu the 2nd plur. of the conjunct-flexion of nearly all tenses.Here, likewise, the Greek lias -re, whereas the 8kr. has -thaand -ta.E.g., pres. do-berid (Lat. date), for prehistoric beret-i = Gr.^eper-e ;fut. for-tesid (suceurretis), for prehistoric tesset-i = Gr.(TTei^€T€, etc.7. In the 3rd sing, of the reduplicated perfect. The stem -aof Skr. forms like dadar^xi was here, before it was dropped,weakened to e or i, in beautiful accordance with the Gr. e inXeXonre. Cf Ztschr. xxii. 229.E.g., con-dairc (conspexit), for prehistoric dedarc-i = Gr.(^eSopKe, Skr. dadar^a ; cechuin (cecinit), for prehistoric cecani.Curtius holds (Verb, der Griech. Spr. ii. 173), but incorrectly,that this form ended origiuallj' in t— (ce-cavi-t). The aspirationproved (Z. 181) so often after bo (fuit; shortened for bdi, forprehistoric bcbovi, root bJiu), in the ancient language, and stilltised in the modern language (O'Donovan's Ir. gramm. 386),shows that the 3rd sing, perf in Irish, as in Sanskrit and Greek,was formed without f.8. Cdic (five), for prehistoric cde-i, that is, cuenq-e = Cymr.pimp, Lat. qitivqiie, Gr. irivre, irefXTre.XI. d stood originally in the last sj-llable. It is preserved inthe monosyllabic vocative-particle a (sometimes d) = Gr. (S, Lat.o, with aspiration after it (e.g., a chossa, feet ') Z. 240, which isstill an established law in New Irish. The Indo-Germ. d wassplit up on Irish territory into a and 6. Before these vowelswere dropped in the auslaut of polysyllabic words, they wereshortened into « and u. The following forms come here underconsideration :1. The nom. sing, of the fem. stems in d.E.g., tuath (people), for prehistoric tSt-a = Goth, thiada; fvoech(heath, heather), for prehistoric vroik-a = Gr. epe'iKri ;Idm, (hand),for prehistoric (pjldnia = Gr. TroXa/xi;, Lat. palma ;run (secret,mystery), for prehistoric ri'm-a = Goth, runa;fedb (widow), forprehistoric vidv-a — Lat. vidu-a; ingen (daughter). New Iri.shrnghean with n not softened, because it was followed in prehistorictime by a broad vowel. See Ebel in Beitr. zur Vergl.Spr. i. 1792. The nom. and ace. dual of the masc. and neut. stems in a,