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for certainly cpiA can be nothing else than the masculine genitive 

 plural. "With these two, it is interesting to compare the this feli 

 ercilixgi at Tregoney, although there we have the nominative plural, 

 with (as I suppose) ellipsis of ftjeriixt. 



One Irish monument at Knockrour, in the legend, 



rnti'O'oo-ppA iti&<]c]& ac, 



furnishes the exact feminine of mA<|A"|\ But there is another word 

 which expresses " daughter," moco or muco, genitive mo<] 01, nrucoi, 

 identical with much, " filia " of the old Cornish glossary. 



The relation of grandson is expressed by m&<|i m^i. This 

 phrase is to be distinguished from another, where niA<] is compounded 

 with a name, and so loses its power of inflexion. iiiA(]i mucoi is the 

 phrase, where descent from a named grandfather, though a mother, 

 rather than a father, is intended to be expressed. For this relation of 

 grandson the word A-pei or k p occurs in two Irish inscriptions, and 

 in the inscription at Llanwinio. We might expect the correspondent 

 of pronepos in these inscriptions, since we have the word at Margani 

 and at Yale Crucis, and I believe that we have it on several Irish 

 monuments, &ciuac|1. &c simply means " father" ; it is the Gothic 

 atta ; the Sanscrit has lost it, but has preserved atta for "mother " ; 

 so it would be as suitable, prefixed to avus for the third degree in the 

 ascending line, as it is for the sixth. The prefixes of avus, originally 

 applied, with perfect correctness, to the ascending degrees, came to be 

 used abusively to the descending ; thus proavus, " before grandfather," 

 is sensible ; pronepos for " great grandson" is nonsensical ; herro&u or 

 -pen&chip, "old father," for "grandfather," is sensible ; but hen-^AU, 

 hen "old," prefixed to cau, " great grandson," to express the fifth 

 degree of descent, is absurd. Yet the same system which allowed of 

 these prefixes, which befit the ascending series, being applied to the 

 descending, would admit of AC prefixed to iua<]1 to express " great 

 grandson." 



I am not aware that the names of women have been particularly 

 noticed on the Irish monuments. In the lists above several have 

 occurred. 



Twice we have a daughter commemorated : — 



HIC IX TVMVLO IACIT KOSTECE FILIA PATERXINI ANN orum XIII IN PACE. 



velvor(ia) FILIA BROHO (magli 



Seven times a wife : — 



nic beaxvs (episcopts) satvrninvs se(pulttjs i)acit et sva sa(ncta 

 CONTVX" pa(vlixa). 



POTEXIXA MVLHER. 



