The Scottish Celtic review

310 Tlte Laivs of Auslaut in Irish.has been slioitened, and looks like a form of the1st conjugation.Consequently, the organically explainable formation, in the 1stconjugation, is the conjunct form -her, -bar (for ber-a), and in the2nd conjugation, the absi^lute form jjredcha, nenia (for nertaj-a).On the other hand, the absolute form bera in the 1st conjugation,and the conjunct form pvedach in the 2nd conjugation, are inorganicirregular forms.Manifestly, a mutual interchange of formshas taken place between the two conjugations, and that in accordancewith the tendency to carry out the distinction of conjunctand absolute flexions. For that purpose shorter and longer formswere required. The older stem-distinction between -her, -bar&uApredcha had been long ago forgotten, and thus the distinctionbetween shorter and longer forms could be introduced for thepurpose just mentioned, into each separate conjugation. In thesame way are to be explained the double forms in the 1st pers.sing, of the future, which have a conjunctive-like formation.Only the forms which are chiefly used in conjunction withparticles or prepositions, such as -carub, no gigiufi (rogabo ; Beitr.zur Vergl. Spr. vii. IG), as-b^r (dicam), are organic forms. Theabsolute forms carf