Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect. 39 



rep-xyija 60, 9, 18, 22 ; KUTeOcjav 60, 27 ; 'Apiarija Berl. Phil. 



Woch., 1886, No. 52, XX. 



It will be seen by the above examples that this change took 

 place as well after the i which developed from an original « 

 (see § 7, 1) as after primitive i; cf. peirija, Tep-xyija, etc. 



In the Bronze Tablet this j has developed without excep- 

 tion between every i and a. Elsewhere we find exceptions. 

 Thus na(/>ia9 Coll. 1,1; 2, i ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 ; 10 ; 11; 

 12; Ha^iaL I, 3 {cf. IIa(f)ija{v) 69; IIa(f)ija<; 15, l) ; ToXyiaL 

 61 ; ALdde/u,c{<i) (cf AijaLd€fii{'i) 74, i) lOO; d{p)8pLd<i Berl Phil 



Woch., 1887, No. 12, col. 380; d{v)hpLd{v)Tav Berl. Phil. 



Woch., 1886, No. 42, col. 1323. 



b) J between i and «, 



ijepev^ Coll. 40, i ; tjepi)^ 33' l ; '^V^o? 39, 3 ; ^ye/oey? 

 Beas. Beitr., xi., p. 316. 



This change does not hold for the Bronze Tablet, vi:::. in 

 i€py]jtjav 60, 20. Other exceptions are lepripo^ i, 2 ; leprjo^ 

 ■^^, 3 ; Kf/oteu? 193 ; ieprjo'i Bezz. Beitr., xi., p. 315. 



J does not develop between i and t]. Thus we have'HSaX- 

 tf/fe? Coll. 60, 2; 'HSaXt?y'i 60, 31 ; KeTtrjfe^ 60, i, where 

 we might have expected Kerijr]-, 'il8aX,iJ7j-. Deecke writes 

 these words 'HSaXte/re?, 'HSaXiiji, Kerie'/re?. With that read- 

 ing we should simply have additional illustrations of the 

 absence of j between i and € in the Bronze Tablet. 



c) J between i and i. 



The only example is tttoXiJc Coll. 60, 6. On the other 

 hand Ail Berl Phil Woch., 1886, No. 41, ix. 



The Pamphylian exhibits precisely the same development 

 of a parasitic semi-vowel between i and a following vowel. 

 This it writes (with Greek letters) as i ; e.£: fenca (i.e. peTija, 

 Ion. erea) CoLL. 1 267, 5; huju ibid. ; hapolcn, ' Ecrrpe{v)8iiu<i 

 (= 'Ao-vreVSto?) 1259. 



Between i and o, or i and «, j never develops in Cyprian ; 

 e.£: Ato? Coll. 73, i ; 'AcppoSiaLw 86, 4; twcn 60, 31. The 

 assumption therefore of Spitzer (Lant. Ark. Dial, p. 51) of 

 the forms Tifioxdpijo<i 39, i ; <^povijo)l 68, 4, is without foun- 

 dation ; and Meister's conjecture of /xvdijov as new reading 



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