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FcLKova Coll. y6, 2, follows the ordinary formation. 

 dreXyjv CoLL. 60, lO, does not belong here ; see below, 8. 



2. The nom. sing. iJ€py]<^ Coll. t,t„ i is a collateral form of 

 ljepev<i {i.e. 'iepev<i), formed probably by appending the regular 

 nom. ending -s to lepri-, which appeared as the stem in those 

 forms of ijepeiKi which in course of time came to drop the f 

 (see § 17, i), as, e.g:, ljeprj-o<i, Ijeprj-c. This new formation 

 occurs also in Arcadian (e.o^. ypa(f)i]^ Coll. 1230, 7; iep)i<i 

 1231, B, et pass.), where, however, it must have originated in- 

 dependently, if the above explanation of the Cyprian form is 

 correct. 



3. Proper names in -/cXef??? (^•^- NtAro/cXef^? Coll. 40, i) 

 formed the gen. sing, regularly in -^Xefeo? (i.e. -KXeF6{a)o<i). 

 This formation is seen in TifioK\€F€o<; Coll. 36 ; 64. By 

 disappearance of the f (see § 17, i) and hyphasresis of the 

 second « (see § 14, 7) we get the forms in Wos, 'vis. Ti/xo/cXeo? 

 35 and ©eo/cXeo? 126, i. NiKOKXepo^; 179 cannot be the legiti- 

 mate offspring of Nt/co/cXeffo? (cf. TiyCto/cXe/reo?), since « before 

 o does not disappear. I therefore prefer to regard Ni/co/cXe- 

 fo9 not as a form historically intermediate between NiKOKXi- 

 feo? and Ni/co/cXefo?, but as historically subsequent to both, 

 and a compromise between the two. Cf. German doppelt, 

 which has resulted from the combination of doppel and gedop- 

 pelt. See Wheeler, Analogy and the Scope of its Application 

 in Language, p. 8. 



4. On the nom. of proper names in -KpdTr)<; and -KpiT7]<i, 

 gen. -Kpdreo^ and -Kpereo'^, see above, § 3, i. 



5. On liLvFd{v)defo<i as possible gen. of Ei)/ra(y)^?;9, see 



§ 17- 3- 



6. x^pt, and SdpL Meister's reading of Coll. 41 (Berl. Phil. 

 WocJi., 1887, No. 52, col. 1644) for %a/3tTi and hopan are 

 quite uncertain. 



7. Ti\(\)LKapo'^ Coll. 29; Ti\{\)iKapL Bed. Phil. IVoch., 

 1886, No. 41, ii. ; 'Safidfo^ Berl Phil. IVoch., 1887, No. 12, col. 

 380, are Phoenician names (see Deecke on the last form) from 

 nominatives rtX(X)/«:a9 {cf VL\(k)LKa{<i) Coll. 120) and Sa/jid^. 



8. dreXr^v (acc. sing, of areX?;'?) Coll. 60, 10, is formed 



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