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The change from « to i is confined almost exclusively to the 

 two inscriptions Coll. 60, 61, both from Idalion. Outside of 

 these it is found only three times, always in de6<i, viz. 6ccbi 

 Coll. 37, 2; 6i[<i)i] 75, 2; dtcoi Berl. Phil. Woch., 1886, No. 

 42, col. 1323. Of these the first is from Palaipaphos, the 

 second from Athienu ; the last from Tamassus. Spitzer's 

 statement therefore {Latit. Ark. Dial., p. 16) that every « 

 before a or o becomes i in Cyprian, was evidently a conclu- 

 sion drawn from the Idalian Bronze Tablet (Coll. 60) alone, 

 and needs revision accordingly. 



On aTe\r]v CoLL. 60, lo (ace. sing, from aTe\r]<i, where we 

 should expect aTeXija for are\ea ; cf. ace. plu. areXija in 

 line 23) see below, under Contraction, § 14, 6, and Declensioji, 

 § 29, 8. 



2. Another peculiarity is the preposition Iv for eV. This 

 occurs always in the form l{v) (see § 23, 2), viz. in Coll. 

 17, 2 ; 27, 2 ; 28 ; 31, 4 ; 37, 3 ; 59, 4 ; 60, i, 3, 8, 9, 17, 20, 

 31 ; 72, 2 (twice, once with the dative and once with the 

 accusative) ; probably also in the compound IvaXaXia-jxeva 

 60, 26 ; very questionable is Iviira 126, 3. 



The closely related Arcadian dialect also has the same 

 peculiarity, e.g. Iv Coll. 1222, 2, 4, 20, 37, et pass. ; the com- 

 pounds X'yyvo'i (eyyvo';) 1222, 36; IjKe-^^rjptJKOi (Att. ejKe^ei- 

 py]KOi) 1222, 12; IfM^alvev (Att. ifji(f)aLveiv) 1222, 24. The 

 Arcadian also has iv several times, e.g. iv 'OXvvTriac Coll. 

 1 183 ; iv Ipavat 1235, 5, et pass. ; but only before a vowel. 



It is an ingenious theory of Spitzer {Lant. Ark. Dial, \). 14) 

 that Iv developed in Arcadian from iv before initial conso- 

 nants, and he adduces analogies for this change from other 

 languages. Old German and Latin ; e.g. Lat. tingo for *tengo 

 {cf. reyyco), qiilnqiie {i.e. *pingue) for *penque {cf Trivre), 

 though it must be confessed that such words as ventns, offen- 

 dimentum (Idg. bhcndh-) furnish puzzling exceptions. 



The fact that iv has survived in Arcadian is sufificient evi- 

 dence that Iv developed in that dialect only under certain 

 conditions (otherwise iv would have disappeared altogether), 

 and Spitzer's theory that this was before consonants is highly 



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