56 diaries E. Bennett, 



The oblique cases were originally -riFo<;, -)]fi, etc., and 

 Deecke is therefore wrong in writing ^aaiXifO'^, K€Ti€ire<;. 

 The Cyprian is the only dialect which has preserved the 

 primitive formation intact. All other dialects have dropped 

 f. The instances of the formation are j3a(Ti\rjFQ<; Coll. 39, 

 I ; 46; 47; 59, I ; 60, 6, 8, 17; 153; 154; 176; 177; 178; 

 179; 'HSaXi?7fe9 60, 2; i€prjfo<; I, i ; Kerif^fe? 60, I. 



As to the Cyprian forms which appear without the f (see 

 § 17, i), they must be considered as retaining r\, if the theory 

 advanced below concerning the origin of tepr;? be correct ; 

 see § 29, 2. The instances are: ySacrtXr/o? Coll. 17, i ; 38, 

 i; 40, 2; 154, 155 a, b; 156; 193; /ep^o? 38, 3 ; ^aai\7}o<; 

 Bezz. Beitr., xi., p. 316. 



29. 



Other Peculiarities of Declejision. 



1. Peculiar are the accusatives IJarrjpav (= IjaTrjpa) Coll. 

 60, 3 ; a{v)hpijd{v)Tav 59, 2; BcT'l. Phil. IVoch., 1886, No. 42, 

 col. 1323. 



Brugmann (Grundriss der VergleicJiendeii Grammatik, I., p. 

 198, and Gr. Gr., § j"]) suggests that possibly the -av of these 

 forms is to be regarded as the development of -vim : i.e. the 

 primitive ending -;;z developed before it the vocalic w, just as 

 in Sanskrit *pddnt became ^padiiim whence padani. Cf. also 

 Greek Trorviav (whence the secondary nom. 'rrorvia instead of 

 *'jr6Tv~is ; cf. Skrt. pdtnt) from ^iroTvumm. It seems much 

 more natural, however, in view of the ace. sing. p,k-v, jxl-v (for 

 pie, see § 31, i) to regard the v as borrowed from the accusa- 

 tive of the -d- and -o- stems, as if to mark more closely the 

 accusative character of the form. Cf Thessalian Kiovav (from 

 m(jiv) Coll. 1332, 40. The late forms vvKra-v and clvSpa-v 

 which Brugmann cites admit of no other explanation. An 

 analogous phenomenon is seen in the verb where a primitive 

 3d plu. imperative jpa-yjrdTco first inserts a pluralizing v, pro- 

 ducing jpaylrdvTco, and then adds yet another plural sign in 

 <ypa-\JrdvTa)V. Cf. also Attic /xiaOcocrdvTcocrav CIA. ii., 600, 45. 



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