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diphthong, the connecting-vowel is never used: e. g. vav- 

 ayds (mS-?, ship,-\- Vay-, ay-vv-/M, break), shi-p-wre eking; 

 f3ov-tce(f>a\o<; (/3o0-9, ox,-\-fce<f>a\i], head), ox-head; /3ov- 

 icpdviov, ox-skull. 



51 The second word also is so powerfully influenced by the 

 same analogy, that a large majority of all compound adjec- 

 tives take the inflection of the -0- declension, with two end- 

 ings: -09, masc. and fem., -ov, neuter. These usually go 

 into Latin as -us, masc. and fem., and -um, neut. ; rarely 

 the feminine has a separate form in -a, and the neuter a form 

 in -on. Some have -17?, -e?, and some take the original form 

 of the final member. The rules for the three respective 

 cases might be drawn as follows: 



52 1. When the final member of the compound is (a) a 

 substantive of the first declension with stem ending in -a 

 (nominative in -779 or -a? masc, -a or-?? fem.), or (b) of 

 the second declension with stem ending in -0 (nominative 

 in -09, masc. or fem., -ov, neut.), or (c) if the final member 

 is made directly from a verbal root, the compound adjective 

 ends in -09, masc. and fem., -ov, neut. 



(«) vTrep-fiope-os (fiope-as, north), beyond the north; 

 fipa.'xy-ovp-o'; (ovpd, tail), short-tailed; 

 olSl-Kvrjp,-o<; (rcvr/fiT), shin), swollen-shinned ; 

 wyB-Jinep-os (vvkt-, stem of vvg, night, -\-rjp.epa, 



day) , night and day ; 

 Kvvo-K€<j)a\- o 9 (kvv-, stem of kvcov, dog,-\-Ke<j>aX-i], 



head) , dog-headed; 



(b) Tpi-SaKTvX- 9 (8cLktv\o-<;, finger,) three-fingered ; 

 \evK-6<f>8a\p,-o<; (o(£#aA.yuo'-9, eye), white-eyed; 

 ^pvcro-TTTep- o 9 (nrTepo-v, wing) , gold-winged; 

 fia/cpo-tcevrp- o 9 (icevTpo-v, sting) , long-stinged; 



(c) inr-rjKo- o 9 , (died pa>, hear), obedient ; 

 0T]p-o-Tp6<f>- 9 , {rpe^xo, breed), animal-breeding; 

 \iOo-^>d'y-o<; (vtfyay, <f>ayelv, eat) , stone-eating; 

 dv8o-\6<y-o<; (V / X £ /„7, Xeyco, gather), fiower-gather- 



