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27. 



Stems in -i-. 



TTToXt? forms the dat. sing. irroXijt {i.e. tttoXu ; see § 18, 

 I, c) Coll. 60, 2. This represents the primitive formation. 

 So also the contracted 'Ocrtpt Coll. 72 ; 45, 2. See § 14, 12. 



28. 



Nonns in -evs. 



Deecke writes the oblique cases of these as -eV 09, -kfi, etc., or 

 with disappearance of f, as -eo?, -et, ^/^. He evidently assumes 

 -e/ro9 to be the primitive formation. This makes a difficulty 

 in explaining the long vowel in the penult of these words in 

 other dialects, e.g. Boeotian @ecr7rteto9 (= SeaTrirjo^), Coll. 494, 

 16; Thessalian ^aa-iXeio'i (ei = rj) 345, 2, 11 ; Lesbian /Sacri- 

 \r)a<; 304, A, 13 ; lonic Il\ovTrjo<i ciG. 2665, b; Elean /3aai- 

 \d6<i (for ^aa-iXrje^ ; d for i^ as frequent in Elean) Coll. 1152, 

 3 ; Att. ^aai\6co<;, ^aaiked, l3aat\ed<; (for /dacriXrjo'i, ^aaiXrja, 

 ^aat\i]a<;, by quantitative metathesis ; cf. Old Attic olKijo'i, 

 given in a law in Lysias 10, 19). Assuming -e/ro?, etc., as the 

 • original formation, the long vowel in these forms can be 

 explained only by compensative lengthening. But certain as 

 a few instances of this phenomenon seem to be, e.g. «&>? for 

 *dpci)<i {cf. Lesbian avcof;), yet the existence of a uniform law, 

 by which a short vowel, standing before p, is lengthened 

 when p disappears, cannot be established. Such words as 

 j/eo? (for vefo<;), ttXo'o"?, p6o<;, /cXeo9, j\vKeo<;, ^06^, etc., in fact, 

 are so numerous as to seem rather to disprove it. 



It is better, therefore, to assume that the original stem of 

 these nouns ended in -■qv-, not -€v-. The nom. sing, then must 

 have originally ended in -riiis- This developed regularly to 

 -eu? ; cf. /SoO? for */3(u{)9 ; mO? for *vdvq (Ionic vr]V'^ is of 

 secondary origin after z^r/e?) ; Xoyot^ for *Xo7(yt? {cf. Skrt. 

 gatdis). See Spitzer, La^it. Ark. l)ial., p. 30 ; r/i Meyer, Gr. 

 Gr.? § 298. 



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