Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect. 9 



which has arisen from primitive Greek d), e.g. KaalyvrjroL 

 Coll. yi ; IjaTfjpav 60, 3 ! STa(riKpdT7]<i ly, i. 



1. ''ASrj is read by Deecke in Coll. 126. He takes it for 

 "A{t)8r)(L) (see § 2, i ; 13, 3, b). But this involves question- 

 able principles in the case of the word itself, and the context 

 is uncertain, so that Deecke's reading can only be regarded 

 as conjectural. If correct, the word might be referred to 

 Homeric influence. See § 20, i. 



2. MoLalBijfio'; CoLL. 12/ is very uncertain and can be cor- 

 rect only on the assumption that it is an Ionic name. On 

 Kardarrja-e in the same inscription, see above, §1,3. 



3. ipeiarj^ CoLL. 68, 2, taken by Deecke {Bezs. Beitr., vi., 

 p. 79) as gen. sing, of *€pei,ao<i, i.e. l'ao<; [cf. Hom. vr]e^ elcrai 

 for *ifl(Tai) cannot be correct in its ^. The inscription, 

 moreover, has elsewhere d, according to Deecke's own read- 

 ing, e.g. OvaTol^, a. On other objections to the word, see 

 below, under Diphthongs, § 12, 2. 



4. WovUr) Coll. 41, 3, formerly taken by Deecke {Bezz. 

 Beitr., vi., p. 71, 5) as for lOvvUri ('straight victory'), disap- 

 pears with the changed reading of that inscription (see Bezz. 

 Beitr., xi., p. 317). 



5. The Ionic ^ in Hall's EuSa/LtcoSoT?;? {Jour. Am. Or. Soc, 

 xi., p. 229 = Coll. ioi) cannot be correct, especially with 

 the non-Ionic d in the second syllable. Ti/jLoScoptjTrj'i ibid. 

 p. 231 (Coll. 121) is doubtful and improbable. 



6. ^eT^rovLKco CoLL. 1 28 is apparently correct and, if so, to 

 be explained as an Ionic name. 



7. av\7](7rj {iov avXi'-jcrr]; see § 13, 3, b) Coll. 126, 2, is to 

 be referred to avXico, not avXaco, and hence its r\ presents no 

 irregularity. The tendency of verbs originally ending in -dw 

 to change to verbs in -ia is abundantly illustrated by the 

 evidence of other dialects, e.g. Cretan /jlolklcov (i.e. ixoi-^iuiv) 

 instead of fioiKacov in the Gortynian inscription, II., 21 ; rifii- 

 ovaa {i.e. TLixeovaa) for Ti/judopaa, Cauer, Delectus'^ 132, 22; 

 avXev {i.e. avXe-ev) Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, 

 1885, 10, 8 {cf. Herforth, De dialecto Cretica, in Dissertationes 

 Halenses, 1887, p. 279) ; Delphian crvKkovre'i Cauer, Delectus,^ 

 211, ij, et pass. 1 39 



