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nom.—;The L(wn (if Au-shdit ill Irish. 87to be accounted for iu the same way; ;is, e.j,'., in aiiim ti-(ihs*il(nomeu apostoli), Z. 2(5i>.Probably the n in the noni. and ace. dual of neuters after dd(e.g., dd n-gruad, duae genae, Z. 228), of which Ebel (Beitr. zurVergl. Spn ii. 70) did not know what to make, is also to be explainedin a similar manner. The cause of such an analogicalconstruction, may partly be found in the nom. and ace. dualhaving frequently come to be of the same form as the nom. andace. singular.-awi in prehistoric time became -eo, -in:3. In the ace. sing, of the consonantal stems of the masc. andfem. geudere.E.g., hrdgif (uom. brdge, neck), for prehistoric brdgent-in (cfLat. gurgitem) ; alr-mitin (nom. air-initlu, reverentia), for prehistoric-mentin-in (cf Lat. mentionem) ; athir (nom. athiv,father), for prehistoric {p)ater-in = Lat. ixdrem, Gr. iruTepa.V. dm stood originally in the last syllable. Before the syllabledisappeared, the vowel was shortened, so that original dm couldbe treated as ami. Here come under con-idevition :1. The gen. plur. of all nouns. The formation of this case iseverj'where the same, as in Gothic (e. g., fiske, h(dge, sunive,hanane, brothre ; gibo, tuggono).E.g., na n-ech n-aile (aliorura equorum;ech), New Ir. nan-each, for prehistoric eq-an = Gr. 'Ittttoov ;inna tuath (nom.tuath, people; fem.), for prehistoric tdt-an = Goth, thiitdo ; na'Ill-ban (nom. ben, a woman), for prehistoric ben-an (cf Goth.qene); filed (nom. file, poet), later fileadh, for prehistoric velet-an(cf Lat. milit-um) ; con (nom. cw, dog, hound), for prehistoriccun-an = Gr. kvvwu; anman (nom. ainm, name), for prehistoricanman-an = Skr. ndmndm, Goth, namno ; brdthar (nom. brdthir,brother), for prehistoric brdter-an — h&i. fratrum, Goth, brothre.In the names of relationship, however, brdthre is found alongsideof brdthar (Z. 263). It is remarkable that also the gen. plur.fem. of the numerals tri (three), cethir (four), has a vowel in theauslaut (Z. 302, 303) : teora n-ungae (trium unciarum; teoir, tossee B. I. 6), also vetheora (uom. cetheoir ; see B. I. 6.) Perhapsthe article may help to an explanation.The article in the gen. plur. has the forms inna and na, withn following (Z. 215). As the dissyllabic inna is evidently theolder form, and na only a shortened form, so likewise in inna weseem to have an instance of the violation of the laws of au.slaut.