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Thf Lmrn of Au^luiU In Irish. 1)5= Ved. dm, Gr. Svw, Lat. duo.Old Ir. dd ech (two liorses), for prehistoric ech-a — Ved. agvd,The original loug d of this form lias been ineserved in tlie monosyllabicihiGr. iTTTTft). The original vocalic auslaut of dd is shown by theaspiration following it; e.g., eter dd son (inter duos sonos) Z. 228.In regard to the n in the neuter dd ii-gruad (duae genae), seeunder B. lY. 2.3. The nom. and ace. phir. of the neut. stems in a, and of theneut. consonantal stems.The neut. stems in a certainly follow in these cases, even in OldIi-ish, the analogy of the fem. stems in d (A. ii. 2) ; but therehave also been preserved alongside of these some genuine neut.forms : grdn, for prehistoric grdn-a = Lat. grdna; neii (^virtutes),for prehistoric nert-a (as in Patrick's Hymn in the Liber Hymnorum; but in a more recent MS., we have in the same passage thelater form neurta) Z. 228 ; tri diet (Z.307, 1087) = Ved. tvi gatd,tri thrdth (three times), and others.Of consonantal stems : annum,, cmmann (nom. sing, ainm,name), for prehistoric anman-a, cf. Lat. nomina ; bimen, b^menn(verbera ; nom. sing. be'i7n, connected with benim, ferio), for prehistoricbemen-a; drommann (terga; nora.druimm), for prehistoricdrommann-a (assimilated from drosmann-, like e/jL/uLevat fromea/xefat, cf. Lat. doisum for droso-) Z. 269. Instead of these, wefind in later MSS. forms ending in a following the analog}'' of theneuter stems in a : anmana, beimeanna (cf. O'Donovan's Ii'.Gramm. p. 98). The doubling of the n in the auslaut of thesufSxes an and man has not yet been explained.4. The nom. sing, of the masc. stems formed by the suffix man(Z. 264a). This suffix serves in Irish for the secondary wordformation(Z. 775), but has had md in the nominative, like theprimary ma?i of Sanskrit and Latin : brithem (judex; from breth,judicium), for prehistoric brithem-a (cf. Skr. brahmd, gen. Ir.bretheman, Skr. brahma-n-as ; flaithem (dominus ; from fiaith,dominion), for prehistoric liatim-a ; Airem,, nom. propr., for prehistoricArem-a, {Ariam-d), gen. Aireman, Eremon (cf Skr.Aryamd, stem Aryaman). The lost broad vowel is clearly shownbj' the modern spelling breithcamh, flaithcamh. To this class belongsalso talam (earth), for prehistoric talm.-a, gen. talman, remindingus, as to its root syllable, of Lat. tellus, but, as to its stemformation,of Skr. stariman, stariman, (couch; cf. Commentary onthe Unadis.), locative starimani, Ved. infinitive to the root star.