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of the Greek Lavguage. 285 



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who was there selling figs brought from Caumis, cried, Cauneas 

 [i, e. either Kavysiug, the Greek name or Cace ne easl which was 



S 



proceediu 



H 



(says 



diphthong uv 



av 



pronou 



the 



considered as an omen ( 



i 



Erasmus Schmidt J it is 



very nearly correspondei 

 word CaveJ^ In addition to this, Schmidt agaia resorts to 

 the Syriac Version ; where^ as he says^ the v in ctv and fy is 

 rendered by \ so as to sound like V: Dw^i) from Ylocvhogi 



DVniSp from KXau3/of, etc. 



The most important argument against this pronunciation of 

 av, is founded upon the well known passage of *lristo2jhanesf, 



where the barking of a dog is expressed by av, au ; from which 

 it is inferred, that this syllable must bave been pronounced like 

 ow in our word how ; it being taken for granted, that Aristopha- 

 nes used a word, which expressed the barking of a dog with ex- 



actness. But he 

 approximation to 



s 



I was mcr.;ly an 

 ;ar to have been 



th 



In add 



the 



Beta 



(p. 150) upon the uncertainty of arguments dirivcd from animal 

 sounds, I will only make one or two remarks applicable to this 

 particular word. It is evident, from what has been already ob- 



served, that the letter v 



must have been pronounced either 



like the French m, or like ee : This syllable then, if not pro 



nounced av, must have sounded like our word aife 



which i:o 



think quite so near the barking of 



pr 



A nstoph 



d as au api 



a dog, as the present 

 then, must have adopted 



sound la question. 



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