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. 1875 Excerpt: ... times as often as a vowel one. Accordingly, (M2)if_ we are not satisfied with "poetical license" as an explanation of the length of the final a in dvyccrsQa rp (E371) i. e. frvyccTEQa sfiv, we can hardly help resorting to an older form for an explanation in the present instance. Now we maintained at No. 606, in spite ...
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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. 1875 Excerpt: ... times as often as a vowel one. Accordingly, (M2)if_ we are not satisfied with "poetical license" as an explanation of the length of the final a in dvyccrsQa rp (E371) i. e. frvyccTEQa sfiv, we can hardly help resorting to an older form for an explanation in the present instance. Now we maintained at No. 606, in spite of some objections, that the spiritus asper of the relative pronoun, and of its adverb as arose out of j. Savelsberg's assertion (Ztschr. VIII 401, X 76), that the assumed.Fog arose out of xfo-g and is identical with the interrogative pronoun, finds no phonetic analogy except that of the H.-G. tcer = Goth. hvas. But the loss of such a volatile letter as h is not much warrant for that of h, and how improbable it is that of two consonants Greek should have made the more usual one give way to the /, which had but a weak hold in the language, and was vacillating from the very first! Still less demonstrable is it that the Skt. ja-s arose from hja-s and that lea, with the by-forms leva and lija, is the common stem of all these widely ramifying pronouns. Finally the demonstrative meaning of the Gk. og in xal og t(pt also makes against this derivation, and suggests the assumption that the originally demonstrative stem i, with the by-form ja, is the basis of the Gk. relative pronoun. Nor must we meanwhile leave out of sight the forms of the languages of northern Europe (see No. 606). If it were really demonstrated that the Greek relative stem had a f, I should be more inclined to admit the possibility of Lottner's suggestion (Ztschr. IX 320)--that it may be deduced from the reflexive stem sva (Gk. 6 (ftps). Still the meaning presents serious obstacles to this view).--On ua&ai I refer the reader to the detailed exposition in the Philologus...
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