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—;Hi Tlir Laws of Aiishud in Ir'ixli.Original «-*, i-L'prescnted in nionoeyllaliic words by Old Irisli;';ni (we) = Cymr. vi — Skr. nas (cf. Lat. noa) ; si, si-si, sissi(ye, you) = Cymr. chwi, cJavi-chui, for original svas, related toSkr. vas, Lat. vos (Z. 325). A pronominal s also appears in thefuller form sni, sni-sni (we).Of polysyllabic forms there come here tinder consideration :1. The nom. sing, of the masc. stems iu a. E.g., Old Ir. ech,for prehistoric eq-as = Lat. equos, Skr, a^vas ; fer, for prehistoricvir-as = Lat. vir, Goth, vair, Skr. vh'os (the e of fer hasoriginated from i through assimilation to the a of the onceexisting final syllable) ; Corh-macc, Cormacc = Cor2nmaqas inan Oghaniic Liscription, which is older than our literary sourceslai'h, for prehistoric tarr-as = Old Gaul tarvos (bullock)—Z. 222 ;Stokes in Beitr. i. 449, ii. 102; Becker in Beitr. iii. 168. InOld Irish, e represented two modifications of the e sound—oneapproaching to i, and the other to Germ. d. In New Irish, theformer is written ei and the latter ea; whence New Irish /car(without the softened pronunciation of r), each, etc.2. The nom. and ace. .sing, of the neutral stems in as (Z. 270),which were first recognised by Ebel in his able article in the Beitr.zur Vgl. Spr. vi. 222, etc. E.g., Old Ir. tech (house), for prehistoricteg-as, New Ir. teach — Gr. o-reyo? ; OldIr. leth (side), for prehistoriclet-as, New Ir. lenth = Lat. latus ; much, ma(f (a plain),for prehistoric mag-as (cf. Skr. mahi, earth) ; ncTn (heaven), forprehistoric nem-as, New Ir. neamh, perhaps identical with Skr.namas, cf. Old Ir. nertied = Old Gaul, neraeton (sanctuarj'), Skr,mamati (to bow one's self), namasyati (to reverence, to worship).The usual comparison (defended by Ebel) of Ir. nerti with Skr.nabhas conflicts with the phonetic laws of Celtic.3. The gen. sing, of all consonantal stems.E.g., hethad (nom. beofhu, life), for prehistoric hivatuf-as = Gr.jSjoTijToy ; ht'dget, hrdgat (nom. brdge, neck), for prehistoricbargent-as, Lat. gurgitis; coimded (nom. coimdiu, lord), forprehistoric -medet-as (cf. Gr. fxiSovroi) ; athar (father), for prehistoricaier-as = Gr. Trare/ooy; menman (nom. inenme, sense,mind) = Skr. manmanas; er-miten (nom. er-mitiu, reverence),for prehistoric mentin-as (cf Lat. mentiSnis).The e in these forms is of difierent origin. In brdgct, it is thea of the stem-forming suffix ant, weakened in prehistoric timeto e; cf Lat. fer-ent. In coivided (stem cov-medi at), it is therepresentative of an original ia, the a of which changed the i