The Scottish Celtic review

;Tin- fAtivs o/Aaslniif i,i Ir'ish. 8:5into (', ftii'l tlicii disa]i]H'aivd. In like manner, tlio < d' tr-ui'ilciihas spruni,' iVoni an original /, wliicli, according to the phoneticlaws of Irish, has been changed into e, as in fer, by the a of theonce existing final syllable.For, the -an of the compound sufBxti-an is variable in Irish, like the Skr. primary sufBx an: it hasits vowel lengthened in the strong cases, and dropped in theweak cases (cf. Skr. ace. rdj-dn-am, gen. rdj-n-as), whilst inLatin the lengthened form has established itself for all cases.Therefore, the difference between Jr. viiten and Lat. mentionis,consists in this, that the former presupposes a man-tin-as, butthe latter a man-tidn-af.That, however, the e in hrugd, coimded, ermitev, and in allsimilar genitives, was a broad e, is not proved so much by theform hrdijat, in which one might also assume the progressiveinfluence of a long a in the root syllable, as by the spelling en inlater MSS., e.g., le'nead, nom. le'ine (shirt); tenead, nom. leoe(fire).4. The 2nd per. sing, of the reduplicated perfect. C'f Ztschr, fiirVgl. Spr. xxiii. 229.E.g., con-dare = Gr. 8eSopK-a