Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect. 23 



root syllable, vi::. vreX-. The ordinary Cyprian form 'AttoA,- 

 (K)q)v represents the ablaut of the same root, while Thessa- 

 lian "AttXovv {ov = co), seen in "AttXouvi, Coll. 368 ; 372 ; 

 "Att/Voui^o? 345, 22, represents the weak form. Cf. the similar 

 "Adstnfnn^" in the name UoaetScov, Laconian HoolSdvt (i.e. 

 UoaoiSdvi) Roehl, Inscriptioies Graecae Antiqnissiniae, ^^^ ; 

 Corinthian ^onhav ibid., 20. 



2. The €1 of the form epeLay-i<i Coll. 6^, 2 cannot be justi- 

 fied. Deecke {Beas. Beitr., vi., p. 79) takes this as the equiva- 

 lent of the Homeric eiari {cf. yte<? elaai, i.e. ^ifla-ai). But 

 assuming this to be correct the change of x to €i or the oppo- 

 site (see on ^tSwXo?, § 8, 2) remains to be proved for the 

 Cyprian dialect. All the existing evidence shows that no 

 such change took place. Moreover, the primitive form of 

 the Homeric word was /riV/ro?, as shown by the recently dis- 

 covered Gortynian inscription. piapofiotpov x., 53 ; plapov 

 Frag. B, 2. Hence the probable reading of the Homeric 

 text is i-iaaat, (for ^i-piaaai ; the « prothetic). It is clear 

 that a form k-piap- could not give Cyprian i-peca-. The Ionic 

 T] too, of the termination, discredits the word, and the phrase, 

 TTor (for TTOTt, i.e. 77p6^) €peLar]<; is not elsewhere found. On 

 the general uncertainty of the context, see p. 2. 



3. The £1 in the first member of ^ipeiOepn^ Coll. 60, 21, 

 where some claim an old dative, is difficult of explanation. 

 Attic Ai€LTp€(f)7]'i CIA. I., 447, HI., 53, et pass, is probably 

 kindred. 



4. On ci arising by contraction, see § 14, 9. 



13. 



iv, 01 ; di, t]i, (01 ; av. 



1. In one or two instances ev has developed from c before 

 p, viz. in evpprjrdaarv (for ipprjrdcraTv) Coll. 60, 3, and Kevev- 

 pov (for Kevepov ; cf. Homeric Keve6<i) 20, 2. This points 

 clearly to /: as a bilabial and not a labio-dental spirant in 

 Cyprian, as does also the development of f between ev and a 

 following vowel (see below, § 1 7, 2) ; though that it points to 



153 



