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;The Laws of AusUiut in Irish. 199noun rf (suus, ejus) Z. 337, which Bopp has explained liy Skr.atsya, cf. Ebel in Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. i. 17(1The mutilated forms tig (dat. sing, of the stems in as) and eich(gen. sing, of the stems in a) have, however, this in common, thattheir original terminations were syllables with slender vowelswhich were separated from each other by an s; -isi, -esi (dat.); -isi,-ese for csia (gen.)S. The 1st sing. pres. of the conjunct flexion of the Irish 2ndconjugation has « in the auslaut, in contrast to the u-inlaufc ofthe same form in the Irish 1st conjugation (B. XI. 8): no charu(amo) as compared with as-bi'ur (dico). In the same way inwhich we may infer from hiur a preceding form ber-u, we mayinfer from caru a preceding form cara-u.This, however, correspondsexactly to Gr. ti/xuw (cf Lith, suJcaw, I turned, I twisted,in Schleicher's Lith. Gramm., p. 22i), and is explained by a stillolder caraj-6. I thus place the Irish 2nd conjugation, like theGr. contracted verbs, beside the 10th Skr. conjugation and thedenominatives in ayati.Lottner (cf Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. ii. 324) and Stokes (iii. 47and vi. 401, 4C5) call the Iri.sh 2nd conjugation the " (J-conjugation,"and make use, in the first instance, of the Lat. 1st conjugationfor comparison. Corssen (Aussprache, ii-. 732) denies, as iswell known, that the Lat. 1st conjugation corresponds to the Skr.formation in ayumi, because, in Latin, Skr. y is never droppedbetween two «-sounds, but will have them connected with Skr.denominatives like mdldti (it is like a garland), from rndld (garland).Cf M. Mliller's Skr. Gramm. § .503. In this he followsPanini's view, according to which mdldti stands for mdld-a-tiand he traces accordingly, e.g., voco to vocd-6. The Umbriansuhocau, by which he thought to support this construction, has,meanwhile, been explained as a perfect-form (Breal's Les TablesEug., p. 69, 361 ; Biicheler in Fleckeisen's JahrbUchern, 1875, p.323). It was, perhaps, after the example of Lat. vocd-6, thatStokes (Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. vi. 405) has formed cardS as aprior-form for Old Irish curu. The rare Sanskrit denominativesof the kind referred to, have, however, a signification so distinctive(as may be ascertained by reference, e.g., to Bopp's Krit.Gramm. § 520) that, even for that reason alone, I could not regardthem as the nearest correlatives of the ordinary Lat. and Ir.denominatives. But even granting them to be so, that would notprove that mdldti has really been contracted from mdld-ati.