The Scottish Celtic review

—m Thr L,nrs,.f Aiishnii nt Irish.iii(il(d-us, a fijiniation like Lat. traciatas, wliicli in Irisli hasliecome tractad. Whether molad is to be traced back to rnold-t-us(ir to inolaja-tu-s I leave here undecided. Cf. Stokes in Beitr. zurVergl. Spr. i. 355.b. TERMINATIONS WITH J/- AU.SLAUT.Tlie in, in prehistoric time, became n, and ha.s been [)reservedin this form up to the present day in certain phonetic combinationsat tlie beginning of the following word, before a vowel or amedial. Original am is presei'ved in the monosyllabic co n- =Lat. CM«i (Z. G40); as, e.g., co n-eoch (with a horse), but co claidiub(with a sword).IV. am stood originally in au.slaiit. Before this .syllabledisappeared, it remained, in certain cases, unchanged (withperhaps a leaning towards on), but, in other cases, it became en,in. Here come under consideration :1. The ace. sing, of the masc. stems in u. J^'sj-, fer n-aile forvir-an = virum ulium, but in fer (virum). The e offer is to beaccounted for as in the nom. sing. /er (B. I. 1). An unmutilatedOld Celtic form we have, perhaps, in /napKuii ~ 'i-Tnrov (Paus. x.19 ; cf Ebel in Beitr. zur Vergl. Spr. ii. 67).2. The num. and ace. sing, of the neut. stems in «, with thetermination on in Old Gaulisli.E.g., Old Ir. dliged n-aill (lex alia), for dli