Particularly of the LE TTE R IITMA. 135 



cito, ogtrai' or for fome fpecial caufe, as in the cafe of the prepo- 

 fition h in compofition, for example ha-Trei^co, injero, as will be 

 fhewn more particularly afterwards *. 



IV. The fingularity and independent nature of the o- is alfo 

 very ftriklng, when we take a view of the ftate in which the 

 liquid V is found, when it precedes the different letters of the 

 alphabet f . This may be fuccefsfully exemplified in the cafe 

 of words compounded with the prepofitions w and avr where 

 we may remark one fcheme of analogy for the vowels, one for 

 each rank of the mutes, (which includes alfo the double confo- 

 nants, as thefe all begin with a mute,) and one for all of the li- 

 quids ; but the folitary and abfolute IHyyM poffeffes a fort of 

 analogy peculiar to itfelf, different from all the reft, though no 

 kfs regular and beautiful. 



1. EN and a-vv^ in compofition, remain before the vowels with- 

 out any change j as, EN-AXXaa-ira), immuto ; 2TN-0/»S(»), una ha- 

 bito, 8cc. 



2. Before the Jir^ rank of the mutes, 1/ is changed into jt*. 

 Thus, 



(Yl'ivra, incido. flle/S-a', una perfuadeo. 



BaXXfy, injicio. STM- j Ba/vai, congredlor^ 



^o^iWy importo. lO^ones), confentio. 



The reafon is, that /x, being a labial liquid, coalefces better 

 than c with the labial mutes %, /S, (p, which may be obferved in 

 every fuch union in the language %. 



3. Before 



• See below p. 137. 



f The liquids are called immutable for tbe reafon formerly given ; but their immuta- 

 bility applies chiefly to their fituation in the inflexions of nouns and verbs ; for » is muta- 

 ble in different parts of the analogy here remarked. 



X Particularlt in thole nevf prefents in «»«, which are formed from the fecond fu- 

 ture of other prefents by changing a into «»«, and inierting » immediately after the 

 YOWel in the antepenult : thus, Xuiix, fUTrSi, Xmaiu, Mrtcim, which is ^ifurara' ^'i^u, 

 Jiu^Ssi, ?,x0cttt.; >.a»g«'w, which is ?,xft.ffatu. The fame thing happens before -i]/, which is 

 tompounded of any labial mute and 0-, thus, EM-filpt"; refrigero. See p. 120. note f- 



