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40 The LavJs of AuslaiU in Irish.case of ce't (stem cinta), it could originate only as an ablative fromthe original chitdd. The shortening of the proper long e, whichappears especially iu the form cita, may be attributed to thefrequent proclitic use of this adverb. When aspiration appearsafter ceta, as, for example, in corrop si ceta the (that it is shewho goes first), then it must occur unorganically, as in the casesmentioned at pp. 31, 3C.Surely with regard to the Latin, the case-form in which thecompared subject stands after the conipai-ative (e.g., lia . . . triur,quam tres), and, further, the case-form in which theplures . . .adjective hiis become an adverb (e.g., in hiuc pauUum, from becoparvus), have, in the Gramm. Celt., been placed along with theIndo-European ablative. I do not think this right; in the masculineand neuter a- stems the vowel a would have remained atthe end from the original -dd of the ablative. The just-mentionedforms are rather to be classified with the Indo-Europeaninstrumental case, as I have done B. XI. 9.For the formation of the ablative in -ias see under B. I. 8.(To he continued.)GRAMMATICAL AND ETYMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OFGENESIS L 1—8.1. " 'S an toiseach chnithaich Dia na neamhan agus an talamh."'»S' is for nnns (in), a prep, governing the dative case. Annswas in Old Gaelic is and sometimes iss for ins, the prep, inwith the suffix s which properly belongs to the article in the dat.case. The prep, in is cognate with Lat. ni, Gr. eV or ev], Skr.(in- in antar (within), Goth., Gcr., A.S., and Eng. in. Cf Zeuss'Gramm. Celt., p. 626.An (the) is the modern form of the article. The ancient formswere for the mas. sing, int and in, for the fern. sing, ind and mi,and for the neut. sing, an and a. The stem is sind = sanda-Zeus.s' G. C, p. 209. The Gaelic article, originally a demonstrativepronoun, is cognate with Skr. dem. pron. ana, Lit. uns,fern, ana (that, that one), Slav. onn. The modem article,although agreeing in form with the ancient neuter article nowlost, represents the ancient furm in. Cf mod. prep. n9i=anc. in.