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—:The Laws of Audaut in Irish. 101come into the auslaut, was dropped.If/t'(7,/i?, occurred onlyconjunctlj'(nifil.ajil, conjil), it might be referred to vel-it ; but thenfil appears in the ancient language also absolutely. For the absolutefi.1,however, wc must, according to the analogy of berid,assume a ground-form with a primary personal-termination, andare thus led back to a prehistoric vclti, a form which is also demandedby the thei-eto belonging conjunctive fcl, for prehistoricvel-at. See B. IX. 2.4. The 3rd pers. plur. of the absolute-flexion of the present.Original anti represented, according to tlie Irish phoneticlaws, by -it. E.g. berit (they bear), for prehistoric heravt-i, =Doi-. ^epoi'Ti ; tiagait (they go), for prehistoric tegant-i, — Gr.(TTeixovato.The dat. sing, of the consonantal stems. By this assumption wetake, as Ebel does (Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. i. 169), this case to be, accordingto its form, an original locative,like the dat. of the Greek 3rddeclension. But since also ai, the termination of the Indo-Germ.dative, must have led to the Old Ir. forms before us, it is possiblethat here, cases, which differ both in function and in form, mayhave been blended into one case. E.g., Old Ir. Joncl athir (patri),for prehistoric (p)ater-i, = Gr. warepi ;do fill (poetae), for prehistoricre^ei-ii ; do menmain, for prehistoric mennian-i, — Skr.manman-i.The neuter stems in man (ainm, name ;cuirm, beer, Z. 208)have, however, preserved in the dative an old instrumental-form,as was already seen by Siegfried (Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. i. 452)anmaimm for prehistoric anmamm-i, originating out of anmanmi,with sufRx mi like Lith. aJcmen-i-mi.6. Some prepositions, viz. :Imb, imm, for prehistoric amb-i, = Gr. u^^/, Z. 654.The original final vowel is occasionally preserved in composition,e.g., in imme-churetar (negotiantur) Z. 876. Imm, im, becauseoriginally ending in a vowel, aspirates the following word : michurpat (circa carpentum) Z. 654.Aiili, for prehistoric fli-i, corresponding etymologically to Skr.ati, Gr. eVi, but used like Lat. re-, iterv.m (Z. 869). This particleis found only in composition. For aith- we find also aid-,id, and, before a sj'llable with a broad vowel, occasionally evenad-.E.g., aidr-chrochad (crucifixio iterata); aith-rech (paenitens), cf.Goth, id-reiga (repentance), id-veit (disgrace)."Whether aithir(,e,