The Scottish Celtic review

—;The Liiws of A add id in Irish. 33dligheadh (law), for a prehistoric Miget-an ; ( )Iil Ir. rfh (liorse),New Ir. cdch, for a prehistoric eqa-iis.The u of the final syllable has been pieserved with lessregularity in the preceding one. In the ancient language thishappened always in the inhnitive of the 3rd conjugation: tflibrcldiud(cogitare) stands here for rddia-t-us.Also, e.g., forms likeJiur, Lat. viro, eoch, Lat. eqiio, enable us clearly to see that thedative singular of masculine and neuter a-stems ended, in prehistorictime, in u, although this is not so evident in all cases.After these preliminary remarks we turn to the exposition ofthe laws of auslaut.Presei'vation of original end-syllables.The original end-syllable of polysyllabic words is preserved inOld Irish— (I.) When a double consonant, and (II.) When r, s, t,or d, stood in auslaut after a long vowel.A double consonant stood originally in auslaut.I.It disappearedwhen s was the last consonant. This loss of consonants weobserve also in the original monosyllabic words mi, gen. mis =Gr. fni'iv ; ri, gen. rig = Lat. rex ; a {ass) = Lat. ex, e. Here comeunder consideration :1. The accu^sative plural of the masculine stems in a and u, andof the masculine and feminine stems in i. Original -cms, -uns,-ins represented by Old Ir. -u, -u; -i. From mis (Gr. fi-rjvoi) weinfer that there must have existed prehistoric middle forms in -i(s{-6s), -us, -w.Old Iv.Jiru (nom. sing, fer) = Goth, vairans, Lat. viros (Z. 277)mugu (servos; nom. sing. Tnug) = Goth, maguns (Z. 240) ;fdthi(prophetas, nom. .sing, fdifh, ma.sc.), cf Goth, balgins (Z. 237)si'di (oculos, nom. sing, siiil, fem.), cf Goth, anstins (Z. 2.52). Theace. plur. of feminine i- stems may have been formed originallj'in -is,as in Sanskrit.2. The nominative singular of the stems in ant, the n of which,according to the phonetic laws nf Irish, was dropped in jirehistorictime (as in cet — Lat. centuin, de't = 8kr. dantus). These areoriginal present participles, which in Irish have become substantivesor adjectives (see Stokes in Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. vii. 66).Original -ents. -ants represented bj- Old Irish -e, -a {-o, -u).