Particularly of the LE TTE R 2 1 T M A. 135 



cito % o^tra" or for fome fpecial caufe, as in the cafe of the prepo- 

 fition h in compofition, for example evo-ve'igu, infero, as will be 

 fliewn more particularly afterwards *. 



IV. The fingularity and independent nature of the 0- is alfo 

 very finking, when we take a view of the flate in which the 

 liquid v is found, when it precedes the different letters of the 

 alphabet f . This may be fuccefsfully exemplified in the cafe 

 of words compounded with the prepofitions \v and <rvr where 

 we may remark one fcheme of analogy for the vowels, one for 

 each rank of the mutes, (which includes alfo the double confo- 

 nants, as thefe all begin with a mute,) and one for all of the li- 

 quids ; but the folitary and abfolute ITtyyua. pofTeffes a fort of 

 analogy peculiar to itfelf, different from all the reft, though no 

 1-efs regular and beautiful. 



1. EN and trvv, in compofition, remain before the vowels with- 

 out any change , as, EN-AXAaovw, immuto j 2TN-0/*g», una ha~ 

 bito, &c. 



2. Before the firfl rank of the mutes, v is changed into ^. 

 Thus, 



{ILVrw, inc'tdo. (UsiSso, una perfuadea. 



BaAA<y, injicio. 2YM-sBowW, congredior. 



Q>6gea>y importo, lO^ocgw, confentio. 



The reafon is, that ^, being a labial liquid, coalefces better 

 than v with the labial mutes t, (B, <p, which may be obferved in 

 every fuch union in the language If., 



3. Before 



* See below p. 137. 



f The liquids are called immutable for the reafon formerly given ; but their immuta- 

 bility applies chiefly to their fituation in the inflections of nouns and verbs ; for > is muta- 

 ble in different parts of the analogy here remarked. 



X Particularly in thofe new prefents in avu, which are formed from the fecond fu- 

 ture of other prefents by changing a into «►», and inferting v immediately after the 

 vowel in the antepenult : thus, tenia, \tira, 'Kma.iu, Mtirivu, which is Ai/*«'w' *it3a, 

 bitjZw, Xx@c>.w, XavjSaw, which is 7\<tp.$a.\u. The fame thing happens before \J/, which is 

 compounded of any labial mute and <r, thus, EM-Yi/^, refrigeror See p. 120. note f. 



