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194! The Laws of Aiiduut in Irish.feminines in 4, but have passed over to the ^'-declension. Gude(precatio; ground-form gadid) has gttdi in the nom. and ace.plural, like suli (the eyes), nom. sing, snil for sill-is; but it is notto be connected with tuatha (= Goth, thiudos), nom. sing, tuath,ground-form tautd. From this view Ebel differs (Beitr. zurVergl. Spr. i. 181, 182).8. The 2nd sing, imperative has, in most languages, a certainrelation to the voc. sing, of the masc. stems in a. In Irish, wehave become acquainted with hir (give) for hcr-i, like a fir (Oman) for vir-i. The voc. sing, of the ('a-stem dune (man) isregularly dimi, for prehistoric duni-i; but the 2nd sing, imperativeof the 8rd conjugation, which also should have, from theoriginal ia (ie, ii), an i remaining in the auslaut, has i in theinlaut only, like bir: Uicirti (sino; stem lincia),'2.nd. sing, imperativeleic (Z. 443). Farther on, we .shall show a correspondingirregular shortening for the same form in the 2nd conjugation.The three Irish conjugations formed the 2nd sing, imperative ata very early period after the same pattern: the tendency touniformity in conjugation gradually prevailed until it finally ledto the results which we shall notice in the third Excursus.II. Forms with j, v, or s before the vowel of the last syllable.To these forms belong the 2nd pers. sing, of the absolute-flexionof the present, of which we have already treated (B. XII. 2).Here are specially to be considered, although briefly, some casesof the nominal-stems in i, it, and s, as well as some present formsof the verbs of the 2nd Irish conjugation (= Lat. 1st conjugation).Some of these forms are mutilated to a greater degree than weshould expect. In explanation of this fact, we have to considerthat the penultimate syllables had lost their hold through thedisappearing of the spirants _/, v, s.1. In accordance with B. I., 3, is formed the gen. sing, of thestems in i, u, and as.Orig. -ajas (Gr. -eoy, -rjo?, -ew?) became -o, -«, rarely -e,„ -av-as (Gr. -eo?, ->jo?, -ewy) became -o, -a,„ -as-as (Gr. -eo?) became -e.E. g., fdith (propheta), stem vdti, gen. fdtho, for prehistoricvdtaj-as; flaith (fem. dominion), stem vlati, gen. fi.atho, flatha, forprehistoric vlataj-as; muir (sea), stem mori, gen. mora, for prehistoricmoraj-as; tir (land), stem ttri, gen. tire, for prehistorictiraj-as (or tirej-as?); bith (world), stem bitu, gen. befho or betha,