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All these are legitimate formations, being either parallel forms from the original 
root, or secondary verbs from the substantive of a primary verb, or the adjec- 
tive connected with the substantive. Not unfrequently this luxuriance of 
terminational blossom shoots out into pregnant new formations, which have no 
parallel in the classical tongue, as in 
mrayialo, to fling one’s self down across the mattress and sleep. 
EcxapdiCoua, my heart leaps out of my body, as with violent joy. 
apKovoila, to go on all fours like a bear, as children do. 
A similar lustihood of terminational vitality—a point where our English tongue 
is so remarkably feeble—displays itself in the terminations of adjectives and 
substantives, some of which are authorised by ancient analogy, as in Bpwpepds, 
for dvaddns, and others are a separate creation of the modern linguistic instinct, 
as in dporydda, voorysdoa, and the whole family of abstract nouns in déa. 
Proposition XIV.—But it is not only in terminational variety that the 
ample vitality of the living Greek tongue asserts itself. As in the ancient, 
so in the modern dialect, the tendency to a florid growth of ever new com- 
pound words is irresistible. It is in the domain of the verbs again where 
this tendency exhibits itself most strongly. Here, of course, the compounding 
elements are often prepositions ; but other elements are not excluded ; and not 
a few very expressive compounds are formed from elements of which, for this 
purpose, the ancients made little or no use. Let the following serve as 
examples :— 
dvakatove (dw), to turn upside down. 
otpepoyupilu, to turn round and round. 
QITOKAPLApOva, to contemplate with admiration. 
EavOoyvpop.ddos, having red and curly hair. 
Tohvo-Koupiaca, to cover with rust. 
xerypouxrpila, to neigh. 
exxoxkwilo, — to turn pale, /iz., to go out of the red. 
KadokuTTaca, to look favourably on. 
yukuguro, to give sweet kisses. 
yruxvyapale, to break sweetly, as of the dawn. 
yucucttalo, to look sweetly on. | 
KaKxoKapoile, to displease. 
KaKOKUTTACO, to look with an envious eye on. 
KakodaiveTat, it displeases me. 
dotpomehekilo, to lighten, /z¢., to send down meteor-axes. 
Xapoyehac pa, a slight smile. 
