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—;The Laws ,'/ Audmif in Irish. 89E.g., tuaith-n-aili (another people), for prehistoric t6t-in=^Goth.thiuda; Mini (nom. Mm, hand), for prehi.storic{p)M.m-in = Lat.palmam, 0. H. G. folma, Gr. Tru\diuL>]v.VI. im stood originally in the la.st syllable. The / invarialilypenetrated into the preceding sj-llable. The following forms comehere under consideration :1. The ace. sing, of the masc. and fern, stems in /. E.g., in S'uil n-a'd'i (the other eye; nom. j.'(t;7), for prehistoric .silZ-m. VGVETIN(Beitr. iii. 163), which is found alongside of VCVETE evidently asan inflected form, appears to he an Old Gaulish ace. of this kind.The form rutin, mentioned by Stokes (Beitr. ii. 104), is unfortunatelyonly a conjectural reading of the Inscriptional RA jTiV" (Beitr.iii.1C6).2. The dat. dual of the numeral deib, dlb (Z. 301), with a nasalfollowing ; e.g., in dib n-uarib deac (duodecira horis) Z. 240.This deib, dib, stands for prehistoric dveb-in, the terminationbin of which Ebel (Beitr. zur Vergl. Spi-. ii. 70) has connectedwith Skr. bhydm in dvdhhydm. Formally the Gi-. (pw agi-ees moreexactly with this Celtic bin, bim. From original bhidm weshould expect, according to rule, to find be in Old Irish (cf.Excursus i).The foregoing example, in dib n-iuirib deac, j)roves, at thesame time, that the nouns in the dative dual had already in OldIrish assumed the corresponding plural form. Had they preservedthe proper dual form, it would have been in dib n-uaribn-deac. In the course of time, even the n after dib was droppedfor, as early as the Lebar Brecc (14-1.5 centuries), we find, e.