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appended. On the parasitic f see § 17, 2. This ending 

 -ais, which appears nowhere else in Greek, Ahrens identifies 

 with the Skrt. termination -dis as seen in nccdis, qdndis. But 

 these are instrumentals from -0- stems (see Whitney, IndiscJic 

 Grammatik, § 1112), and are formally identical with the so- 

 called dat. pill, of -o- stems in -ois (for *-wis, Idg. -dis ; as Zeu? 

 for Z77V9 ; vav<i for vdv<;, etc.; Meyer, Gr. Gr.^ § 298). On a 

 more probable explanation of vfai^, see below, § 33, 5. 



3. Interesting is alXoav, Coll. 60, 14, = Att. aXKwv. This 

 is by epenthesis for a primitive *akip<i (Lat. alius), whence 

 *atA,/,09, al\o<;. Cf. the Hesychian gloss aiXoTpoTTov ' oXXol- 

 orpoTTov and the recently discovered Cyprian form 'AireiXcov 

 (for '* WTreXrwv) in the inscription communicated by Deecke 

 in the Berl. PJiil. IVoc/i., 1886, No. 42, col. 1323. 



4. di has also been assumed by Spitzer {Lant. Ark. Dial., 

 p. 26) in preference to -di {i.e. -d) as the ending of such 

 singular forms as ^d-^at, Tv-^ai, ToXyiai, etc. Spitzer first 

 {ibid., p. 25) attempts to demonstrate for the Arcadian that 

 the forms in -at in that dialect have the a short and not long 

 (-di not -di). He is convinced that -di could not have remained 

 unchanged in Arcadian, but would have lost the iota and so 

 have appeared as -d. His grounds for this are that final -tji 

 {i.e. -Tj) loses its iota in Arcadian and appears as -i\ ; e.g. 

 Tv-j-^dvr], Coll. 1222, 14, for Tv^yavrj. He also adduces 

 Arcadian 'Aye/ico, which he takes as for ^ Kyeixwi, Coll. 1185. 

 But this last is by no means certain. 



Spitzer's reasoning, however, is not conclusive, since final 

 di, Til, «i do not necessarily all develop in the same way ; and 

 in fact even in one and the same dialect one and the same 

 diphthong sometimes retains the t and sometimes drops it ; 

 e.g. Ionic t?) /SouX)} (for tt} j^ovX-fj) Erythrae, 394 B.C. ; h-qfjio- 

 (TL7], Mylasa, 355 b.c. ; but tj} (f>vy^, Samos, 322 e.g., Cauer, 

 Delectus,^ 510, 6. Hence it is quite possible that the Arca- 

 dian might have retained final -w., and that such forms as 

 Tejeai CoLL. 1222, 34; 'ApKuSiat I200, 3; 'OXwirlaL 1 183, 

 6; ^a/xlai 1222, 18, should be considered as ending in -di, so 

 far as any phonetic necessity is concerned. The only reason 



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