1 8 Charles E. Bennett, 



the relation of ov- and av-. Voigt takes ov- as derived from 

 av- by some phonetic process, and refuses to believe that ay- 

 after becoming ov- could still further progress to vv-. ov-, 

 however, must be taken as an independent form (see above, 

 § 5, i), and that it should become vv-, in a dialect where the 

 relations of o and v are confessedly very close, is not to be 

 regarded as surprising. 



That these relations were close is made evident not only by 

 the regular change of final -o to -v, as noted above, but also 

 by 'Aix6{v)Ta Coll. 147, for 'A/xv{v)Ta (if correct ; see § 5, 3), 

 and vveOr-jKe for ovedrjKe. Cf. the same phenomenon in Boeotian 

 ^Afx,6vTa<; (for 'A/zuyra?) Coll. 603 ; IS^ivfielvLO'i (for Nto/zemo?) 

 Coll. 485, 24. It is noteworthy that in Boeotian too the 

 phenomenon seems to occur chiefly before nasals. 



5. Spitzer {Laut. Ark. Dial, p. 17, note) cites Cyprian 

 Bvfdvot Coll. 60, 6 as illustrating the change of o to v in 

 the interior of a word. But Sopevat in the same inscription, 

 lines 5, 15, certainly does not speak for this change, nor do 

 other words in the dialect ; so that the reference of the word 

 to root Su-, as above (1), is undoubtedly correct. 



10. 



We find V in Xvar] {i.e. Xvarj) Coll. 60, 29 ; Xvaai 60, 28 ; 

 a-vXricrr) {i.e. avXrja-r)) 1 26, 2, where it corresponds to v of the 

 other dialects, and presents no peculiarities. 



Diphthongs. 

 11. 



at. 



1. Primitive Greek ai appears in alpei Coll. 60, 3 i ; Sopevat 

 (Att. Sovvai, for Bo{p)€vai} 60, 5, 15 ; Ijaa-Oat 60, 3. 



2. vpai<;, the accepted reading in Coll. 60, 10, is taken by 

 Ahrens {Pliilologiis, xxxv., p. 54) as from the preposition v 

 {=€-^1; see below, § 33, 5) with the adverbial ending -ois 



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