Charles E. Bennett, 

 SOUNDS. 



Vowels. 

 1. 



Cyprian a corresponds in general to primitive Greek a and 

 a of the other dialects; e.g. a{v)Ti Coll. 6o, 5 ; /Saa-iXevs 17, 

 I ; pdva^ 18, I. 



1. SdXrov Coll. 60, 26 appears in other dialects as Be\To<;, 

 being derived from the name of the letter delta (to BeXra). 

 The Semitic name of the letter, however, is daleth, and it is 

 doubtless owing to the influence of the Phoenician dialect of 

 Cyprus, that the Cyprian Greeks employed the form BoXto^; 

 while the others said SeXro?. 



2. Whether iap6<; as in Doric, Elean, Boeotian, Thessalian 

 and Arcadian (in the latter by the side of /epo?) really exists 

 in Cyprian is as' yet uncertain. Of Deecke's three forms 

 'lap(o{v)8av Coll. 118; iapcoTaTo<i 41, I ; and Japd 72, 2, the 

 first is entirely uncertain, and the second no longer main- 

 tained by Deecke himself (see Bes;:::. Beitr., xi., p. 317). Only 

 the last of the three, japd, can lay claim to serious attention. 

 Whether japd can be for ijapd {i.e. [apd; see § 18, i) is 

 extremely doubtful. The only theory on which we could 

 account for the disappearance of the initial i, would be that 

 it merged in some way with the final i of the preceding 

 'A7ro'A.(A,)a)j/t. This may be correct in spite of the divisor, 

 viz. a ' po ' lo * 7ii ' \ ja ' ra \ Cf. Coll. 26 e ■ mi ' | ' la ' o ' 

 — i.e. possibly ^yu,l ToXaw. Cf. Deecke, Bezz. Beitr., vi., 



P-83. 



The regular Cyprian form is t'epo? {Ijepoi) ; e.g. Ijepevf 

 Coll. 40 ; lepijo^ 38, 3, et pass. None of the forms in ijep- 

 ever show any tendency to lose their initial vowel and to 

 appear as jep-. 



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