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ni9G Tlie Laws of Auxlaat in Iridi.Oil the nom. sing, of the remaining stems in n, mentioned in Z.2C4a, see Excursus iii. 2.5. The instrumental sing, of the fem. stems in a, preserved inisolated forms. See thereon under 9.6. The conjunct-form of the 1st pers. sing, pre.s. conjunctive.E.g., CO n-aer-bar (donee dicam), coni eper (ut non dicam) Z.440 ; -bar for prehistoric ber-a, orig. bhard. This person is rarelymet with in the 1st conjugation, as the old conjunctive wasalready in Old Irish neai-ly extinct. The question now iswhether the original termination of this form was d or dm. Inthe latter case, we should be reminded of Lat. feram. But, onthe other hand, Vedic forms, like nir ayd (I will go out), stavd (Iwill praise),' and Gr. (pepw, belong to a very ancient type ;and forthis latter I decide, since a nasal has not been proved after any ofthe Irish examples, whilst aspiration has been pi-oved after, atleast, one of them : ta chumme-se friu-som (non fuerim egopar illorum ; tau, tao indicative, td conjunctive) Z. 490. InIrish, therefore, in prehistoric time, the common ground-form forthe 1st pers. sing, indicative and conjunctive assumed differentforms, so that the latter became berd and the first hero (B. XI. 8),whilst Greek has (pepu) in both cases.In some verbs, whose present-stem is formed with ia, we findalso in the conjunctive indications of a tendency towards theobscuring of the vowel : do-gn^o (faciam) beside do-gniu (facio),beo (sim) beside bm (sum), Z. 492. The modified form eo in theconjunctive beside iu in the indicative, shows that here also thea was preserved pure in the conjunctive longer than in the indicative.How it is that gneo, beo, by the preservation of the lastvowel, do not conflict with the laws of auslaut, will be explainedin Excursus i., 2.7. The conjunct-form of the 1st sing, of the reduplicated future,which, in nearly all instances, has a conjunctive-flexion. Thisform may be more correctly regarded as the conjunctive of areduplicated perfect or aorist, the indicative of which is notalways preserved in Irish.Of these forms more numei-ous examples can be adduced, sincethey belong to a favourite formation which has been preserveddown to the modern language : as-hc'r (dicam), originating out ofbebr-d ; nad eel (quod non celabo), originating out of ced-d (Z.'See Delbriick's Altind. Verb. 26.