A Manual of Comparative Philology as Applied to the Illustration of Greek and Latin Inflections (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... Greek; Greek accus. plur.: formed by addition of r to acc. sing., but-vs only retained in the Argive and Cretan dialects, e.g. row, =touj, irpeiyevTavs=wpeaevTds. Elsewhere, in the vowel declension, v disappears, the vowel being usually raised in compensation, e.g. twwo-vs, imrovs (Doric "imras, like Latin-os); xapavs, Xapds. In Lesbian-ovs and-avs became-oir, -ais: thus Koxok, =xaXar, as in Pindar we have piXrioais=pi.rjcravs=(piriaavT-s, Attic (pirjaas. In consonant stems-s follows-a of acc. sing. making-as: but in 1-and u-stems there is variety of form; Accus. Plur.thus beside 7roXt-ay and 7r0X1jci5 we have iroTs=irukiv-s. irokeis, the ordinary accusative, is perhaps best taken as =iroey-as (see above on nom. plur., p. 105): but it might also represent ir6iv-s, and be =71-0X19. With neuters, a is added to the stem. Latin accus. plur. of masc. and fem. stems always in-s, In Latin, with long vowel preceding by compensation for the loss of-m-; thus-as=-am-s, -5s=-om-s; eg (is)=ems (ims), -us=-um-s. To neuter stems-a is added, corpora=corpos-a. In Sanskrit, traces of the termination-ns are found: but in vowel-stems usually either 11 or s disappears and the vowel is raised, e. g. asva-s (equus), acc. plur. fovan; asva (equa), acc. plur. asvas. So avi-n (masc.), avis (fem.) from stem avi-. To masc. and fem. consonant stems, and monosyllabic vowel stems, -as is added, vs -as, asman-as, nav-as (nau). The Accusative Dual in Greek (as also in Sanskrit masc. Accus.Dual, and fem.) is the same as nom. dual. In Latin duo, amho have also a form duos, ambos, on analogy of plural, and in fem. only this form (duas, ambas). Vocative Singular;--This, it has been already said (p. 105), seems to be in Indo-Voc Sing. European languages no 'case, ' but the mere stem used ...