The Scottish Celtic review

—102 'The Laws of Ah da at in Irish.ithirge (repentance) stand for aithi-ri(je or aith-rirje, cannot bedecided.The Gaulish forms of these two particles are amhi-, ate-, e.g.,Ambi-renus, Ate-gndta (Gllick's Kelt. Nam., pp. 18, 97). Theweakening of the final i to e occurs also in Irish in imme-churetar,and also in ci, ee, related to Lat. quis, quid.The Irish preposition ind- (Z. 877), related both etymologicallyand as to usage to Goth., and, anda e.g., in ind-rid (incursus;ar-riidh,ioT ret-u, adorior) to be compared with Goth, and-rinnan,—might have originated out of and-i, but also out of and-a, sincea, before nd, nn, has been attenuated even without the influenceof an i in the following syllable (Z. 5). The Gaulish form is ande-(Gliick, p. 24, &c.), e.g., Ande-ritum ; ritum = Cymr. nt(vadum),^ Old High German furt, Old Baktrian peretii (bridge).7. onn und (ab anno priore) Z. 611; urid for prehistoric(p)arut-i = Doi". iripvTt, Ion. irepvcrt.8. Cethir (rea-rTapa, neutr. Z. 303) aspirates the anlaut of thefollowing woi'd, and may, therefore, stand for prehistoric cetar-i= catvdri ; cethir chM = Ved. catvdri gatd.XIII. i stood originally in the last syllable. It has been preservedin the monosyllabic forms si (ea) Z. 32G = Goth, si, and tri(tria) Z. 302, 1087, since tri ch^t = Ved. tri §atd.In polysyllabicforms i has been lost, having first been shortened and havingjienetrated into the preceding syllable. Here come under consideration:1. The nom. and ace. dual of the stems in i.E.g., di mil (duo oculi), for prehistoric sill-i (cf Ved. kavi,K.-Slav. nosti, Lith. naldl. See Leskien's Die Decl. im Slaw.-—Lith. und Germ. p. 107 ; Ebel in Beitr. ii. 73).2. The dat. sing, of the stems in i.E.g., fdith (nom. faith, Y>oet),iov prehistoric vdt-i; silil (nom.suit, eye, fem.), for prehistoric sill-i ; muir (nom. muir, sea,neut.), for prehistoric mor-i.Certainly, an i stood in the last syllable before it was lost;but for an explanation of this i, we have a choice of severalpossibilities. It might have been shortened fi'om an original i,as in the nom. and ace. dual. In that case, this so-called dativewould be, as to its form, an instrumental, like the Vedic instru-' If this Gaulish ritum, therefore, be etymologically related to O.Tl.G.fwt, wewould have here a farther proof that the ludo-Germ. ^ was lost also in Gaulish(cf. Gaul, are-, p. 229).