The Scottish Celtic review

Tlie La^vs of Analaid II) Iridi. 201curl being here the only ty])0. Tlii.s c(irl may be referred, in thefirst instance, to a prehistoric trisyllabic card-i. But as it, likewise,hajipena in Lithuanian, e.fj., in sulci (thou turnest), mko (hedid turn), for suJcaja, that the vowel of the stem has been weakenedto i in the 2nd sing., whilst it has been preserved as a iuthe 3rd sing., so we may follow cara-i up to a still older caruj-is(with secondary personal-ending) as the correlate to caraj-at, towhich we have just now ti'aced back the 3rd sing. cara. On theother hand, however, it is also possible to explain ccvH by aprimitive caraj-asi, the mutilation being of the same kind as inthe forms tig, eich, of which we have treated under 6 and 7.And thus I suspect that, in the historic cari, both formations,that with the primary and that with the secondary personaltermination, have coalesced. The form spelled carai would morecorrectly represent the certainly unsoftened pronunciation of r;but the form .spelled mri, which prevails iu Old Irish, is of importanceto us, inasmuch as it does not allow us to infer directlya preceding form with broad d like the cardis supposed by Stokes,apart from the objections which one must make on generalgrounds to the construction of this form.11. Although the remaining forms of the present of the 2ndconjugation present no new phenomena in connection with thelaw of auslaut, I shall, nevertheless, briefly indicate how theprimitive aya has been treated here. The 3rd sing, of the absoluteflexion is written carid a.s well as caraid in Old Irish. If,as is our opinion, carajat-i be the ground-form, cara fi might herebe regarded as an intermediate form which has originated fromcontraction after the loss of the spirant. But of so broad a voweloriginating from contraction, not long before the historic period,more would certainly have remained than a mere trace, whichwas just sufhcient to preserve the r from being softened throughthe penetrating of i, and which, in Old Irish, was not always evenrepresented in writing.Besides, we must, generally, be cautiousin regard to the admission of the conserving tendency of contractionin Irish. In the Irish forms, destructive tendencies, likeiKOXixp-ii and aw'i^t)ai^, have especially done their part in the wayof elision {ab/all). How syllable,'!!, which, through the lo.ss ofa consonant (j, v, s, or p), had as it were lost their hold, weresure to drop, I have endeavoured (Zeitschr. fiir Vergl. Spr. xxiii.239 ff.) already to point out in the case of forms of the perfect, likefeotarjemmir, from the root svap, and roiguid from the rout gus.