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ya(TTp-o-Kap(f>7] (yKTTrjp, yacrrpos, ?;, belly, Kdp<f)ri, rj, dry scale) 



Gastrocarphe i : 16 in yaarpo- 

 Orjp-o-/xop(f)r] ((f)VP' ^'7Po?. o, beast, fj-opOrj, ?), form) Theromorphe 



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 -TTvp-o-XeLpiov (tti'/d, Trvpoi, TO, fire, ketpiov, to, lily) Pyrolirium 

 49:64 in -1-; II in p-; 4 in -rj- 

 (3) Stem in -fMT, nominative in -p-a. 

 A special study of this class of imparisyllabics has been 

 made for the sake of determining just what warrant ex- 

 isted in Greek for making the stem of the oblique cases 

 the invariable form for composition, These were thought 

 to constitute a very fair criterion on account of their wide 

 extension, and for the further reason that they furnish a 

 large number of alternatives, since the nominative might 

 readily be supposed to represent a first declensional stem 

 in -a. The Greek lexicon contains 1,782 neuters in -p.a, 

 largely secondary slems, though there are also many pri- 

 mary ones, these being by far the most frequent in compo- 

 sition. Of these 1,782 neuters, 231 are found in compo- 

 sition or derivation as the first term, occurring altogether 

 in 969 deri\atives. Of the 231, 208 occur in derivatives 

 only in the proper stem form in -p-ar, being used 555 

 times. Eleven words, ayaA/xa, glory (13:1), appa, chariot 



(24:1), Seppa, skin (9:1), ^a,?;u.a, marvel (14:13), Oewprjpa, 



theory (2:1), Keppa, small change (3:1), Kvpa, wave 

 (19:11), Kcjpa, coma (2:1), ovopa, name (20:12), crS/Aa, 

 body (48:5) and <f>X€ypa, flame (12:4), show the alterna- 

 tive stems, ayaXpar- and ayaXp.-, though the former is pre- 

 ponderant, occurring in 166 derivatives, while the latter is 

 found in only 51. Six words of this class, alpxi, blood 

 (32:72), epp-a, prop, (2:3), TTwpxL, drink (3:4), a-n-eppa, 

 seed (16:22), o-Topa, mouth (3:24), and x^i/Aa, cold (1:4), 

 occur more frequently in the shortened form, alp-, the fre- 

 quency being 129 to 57. Three only, 8i]Xrjpa, bane (i), 

 (TTaXaypu, drop (i), and 4>pdypa, fence (3), are found in- 

 variably in the shortened form, while three, iirtiTOipa, 

 TtapiyKvpa, and aiypLo. occur once in each form. To sum- 



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