A comparative grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic languages Volume 1

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. 1885 Excerpt: ...here, also, avdpa (with euphonic S) corresponds to the above-mentioned Veda?m nard, and Zend M?mj nar-a. Although, according to §. 4., co also very frequently stands for Wl d, still we must avoid regarding Avku as the analogous form to rar vrikd, or Aujwj velirlid (see §. 211.). That however, the Lithuanian dual u of masculine G. Ed. p. 241. bases in a (in the nominative) is connected with the Veda and Zend dual termination spoken of, t. e. has proceeded from /, I have the less doubt, because in the other declensions the Lithuanian dual also agrees in this case most strictly with the Sanskrit, and the Lithuanian u or u (mo) is, in some other places, equally the representative of an old & (see §. 162.), compare, dumi, or dudu, "I give," with ift? daddmi; dutu, "I will give," with renfo ddsydmt. And the monosyllabic pronominal bases also in a sound in the dual u; thus lu = in (d, ku = kd. We hold, therefore, the Veda form r vrikA, the Zend.xuw vehrkd, and the Lithuanian wilku, as identical in principle: we are, at least, much more inclined to this view of the matter than to the assumption that the u of wilkii is the last portion of the Sanskrit diphthong «t du, and that irilku belongs to the form ft vrikdu. In the vocative the Lithuanian employs a shorter u, and the accent falls on the preceding syllable: thus wilkn, opposed to wilku, in which respect may be compared-nonep opposed to nctTr/p, and §. 205. 210. Masculine and feminine bases in i and u suppress, in Sanskrit, the dual case termination vft du, and, in compensation, lengthen the final vowel of the base in its uninflected form; thus, inft pati, from trfk pair, njrswnw, from CTjsunu. The gui»£Au bdzv-do, "arms," (from frdzu) mentione...