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inflections. 



Declension. 



25. 



Stems in -d-. 



1. On the gen. sing, in -av and -ao of proper names in -as, 

 see above, § 14, 4. 



2. Feminine -a- stems have everywhere -ds in the gen. sing., 

 e.g. 'K6dva<i Coll. 60, 20; avda{a)a<i 33, i ; ev-xw\d<=; 59, 3 ; 

 pavda{a)a<; 38, 4; 39, 2 ; 40, I ; 'OvaaiKV7rpa<; 34, I ; t«9 I, 

 I et pass. ; lii/jiOKV'jrpa<i 23, I ; ^iXoKV7rpa<; 22, I ; 'Apia- 

 T0KV7rpa<i Bcrl. Phil. Woch., 1 886, No. 41, vi. No trace is 

 anywhere found of a fem. gen. in -au such as occurs in Arca- 

 dian {e.g. oUiav Coll. 1233, 3 ; ^afiiav 1222, 12, 25), where it 

 is borrowed from the masculine. On the occasional omission 

 of -s in the gen. sing., see § 20, i. 



3. A peculiar gen. sing, of masc. -d- stems is found in 

 'Afirjvtjd Coll. 60, 18 ; 'OvacripbdXd 120, i ; 'Kpiarijd Berl. 

 Phil. Woch., 1886, No. 52, XX. The formation can hardly be 

 Cyprian. It is possibly the result of Doric influence ; cf. Cretan 

 BcKaara (for -ao), Inscription of Gortyna, v. 35. This expla- 

 nation at all events seems preferable to that of Deecke, who 

 believes that Cyprian -do could sometimes lose its -o and ap- 

 pear as -d. 



4. Eufayopco {cf. on the other hand ''Qvaaa^opav Coll. 60, 

 I, 22) Coll. 153, 154, is referred by Meyer, Gr. Gr.^ § 345, to 

 the influence of the Ionic dialect, but such Ionic gens, as Aa/A- 

 -yjrayopeco (E(j)r]/u,€pU 'ApxaioXojLKi], 1 884, p. 86) certainly do 

 not speak for an Ionic Evpayopo), although -« (by contraction 

 for -e'w) does sometimes occur in Ionic, e.g. 'Avvlko) for 'AvviKeco 

 Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecac Antiqnissiinae, 381, c, ii. 



'A/iu(i/)T&) Coll. 41, which Meyer also explains in the same 

 manner, is no longer maintained as a reading by Deecke; see 



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