136 ANJLOGT of GREEK LETTERS; 



3. Before the fecond rank of the mutes, v is changed into 

 y. Thus, 



{KXs/ai, includo. fKaXeai, cotivoco. 



Y^a.(p(u, infcribo. STF-s FeXau;, fimul r'ldeo. 



X^iaiy tfiungo. [X.w, confundo. 



The reafon is, there being no palatine liquid, y, the interme- 

 diate palatine mute, coalefces better than v with the mutes of 

 its own order ; and this is a combination of very frequent oc- 

 currence in the Greek language * ; the found of the » being at 

 the fame time retained and incorporated in the pronunciation 

 with that of 7, though the former is thrown out in writing, to 

 avoid the concourfe of three, and fometinnes of four confonants. 



4. Before the third rank of the mutes, v remains unchange- 

 able ; thus, EN-Ts/kw, intendo, STN-Tct^cso-o-*, commoveo, 8cc. 

 The reafon is, i> being a dental liquid eafily coalefces with the 

 dental mutes, without any change. 



5. Before a liquid, v pafles into a liquid of the fame kind 

 with that which it precedes ; thus, 



EA-A«f(.Tw, iltuceo. 2TA-A6y«, colUgo. 



EM-M/yxup, imm'jfceo. 2TM-Ma^«-T<w, corripio. 



EN-N«<'a/, inhabito. 5TN-Noew, mecum repulo, 



EP-P<7o'(u, inalgefco. STP-Pew, confluo. 



All this evidently was done euphonia caufa. But it is to be obferved, 

 that before verbs beginning with f, the prepofition h feldom 

 pafTes into \^, becaufe, in that cafe, certain perfons of the prefent 

 tenfe of the compound verb would be confounded with certain 

 perfons of the imperfedl tenfe of the fimple verb ; for in verbs 

 beginning with ^, the ^ is doubled after the fyllabic augment ; 

 wherefore the euphony was generally here facrificed, in order 



to 



* Thus, from ipaUx, ojlendo, we have in the perfeft, not mpaiKoi, but ■x'l'fa.yxM, And 

 in the new prefents in uvu, formed from a fecond future, as already mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding note ; 'miyu, ifuySi, !(Ky<»»«, i^vtytivu, which is ifvyyaia' ^-ix"' '"»X'^> '^X'*'"' ^'' 

 yam, which is ^xyj;*'.*. The fame thing happens before J, which is compounded of any 

 palatine mute and ir ' thus, Er-Si«, in/cu/fio. 



