Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect. 45 

 21. 



Indogermanic q ^ apparently develops irregularly as v (in- 

 stead of t) before « and i in several words : — 



1. TreiWi (Idg. root qei-), Coll. 60, 12, 25, corresponds to 

 Attic reiaei (on this and not ria-ei, as the correct form, see 

 above, § 12, ad in.), fut. ind. 'shall pay.' Attic reio-ei repre- 

 sents the regular development of g. Cyprian ireicret has 

 undoubtedly borrowed its -n- from other formations of the 

 same root, where ir was phonetically justified, e.g. *7re-7roi-a 

 (perfect), ttolvt] 'pay.' Cf. Thessalian aTrireLadrov {i.e. airo- 

 reiaaTw) Coll. 1332, 28, where the same irregularity occurs. 



2. 'jT€(j}a/j.epcov, Coll. 59, 2, i.e. 7re(ji)(f)afi€p(ov (see § 23, i, 

 2) gen. sing, of 7re(/x)^-ayu.epot', 'five days' period' {cf. Att. 

 irevdijfxepov) points to irepLire (Idg. pe7iqe) as the form of the 

 numeral for ' five ' in Cyprian as well as in Lesbian. Here 

 also the v (for t) owes its origin to the influence of other 

 primitive formations from the stem penq-, e.g. ireinrd'^, where 

 the ir before a was regular. 



3. In oTrKTif; (= 6aTi<; ; see § 22, 2) oVt- is an adverbial 

 formation from the pronominal root qi-, which like ireio-eL (see 

 above, l), ought regularly to appear as -tl-. The ir is to be 

 explained as borrowed from forms such as ottwi?, oirorepo'i 

 etc., where w for Indogermanic q before o and u is regular. 



22. 



Assibilation of t before i. 



1. This occurs as in Attic in the verbal ending -(v)<ri (see 

 above) for -vn, and elsewhere. The examples are €^o{v)at 

 for e^ovTi (Att. e^ovcn) CoLL. 60, 31 ; tco(v)ai, 60, 31 ; €^/3aai<; 

 (Att. eK^aai^ ; see § 24, i) 31, 2 ; 32, i ; TroVi? 26, 2. 



eVt 73, I and a{v)Ti 60, 5, et pass, retain the t as in all 

 dialects. 



1 Following Brugmann's use of this character in his Grundriss der Verglei- 

 chenden Gra^nmatik. 



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