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384.] DOUBTFUL VOWELS. 359
in i, coKe'a, /Safo'rjj (for co/ceia, (3a0Lr]s) Adjectives in : -eioy, as
d \d\Kios and )(aAKoy peia and pea : : TrAetoj;, &c. and
7rAe'oi>es :
/3eto/xai and fito^ai ( 80), and many Verbs in
-*> ( 5i, 3)-
01, in oAoo's and dAoio's ;
also olos (^ ^), as in II. 13. 275 otd'
cu,
dperV olos ea- XP*~)
See Appendix C.
Sometimes ei has taken the place of eu before another vowel,
as in the Verbs 0o, wveo), TrAeco, x e/co ^Aeco
? ( 29, 3).
also in
Aetofo-t, Dat. Plur. of Xecoi; (Aei^oz;
or AeFay), and perhaps in the
Pf. euo#a (cp.
veOa>K Hesych.), doiKvlai (II. 18. 418). Similarly
a may stand for au, as (^dea ^# ($at>-), dijp (cp. avpa) and other
derivatives of aFrjfju (dAta?}?, d/cp-d?js), deVa/xei' w^ ^ej!?^ (tawco),
aacrafjiriv (aFary), and probably juie^aorej, dt'ozj, detSw, v A't'8oj. We
even find 01 for ou (from of),
in otereas for d-fereas o/" /^ a^
(II. 2. 765), Trvoirj for Trrofrj : cp. ot'ey (- w ^ in Od. 9. 42.5).
T] for eu may perhaps be seen in ?)et8r]y, 7]et8et (e-fetSea?, -ee) :
but see the explanation suggested in 67, 3.
Interchange of quantity is occasionally found : oWo^ez;,
Krecojmer, (/>^eo)/oiey for o-r?]o/xey, &c. ( 80) : ecoj and reco? (if these
forms are Homeric) for ^oj and rrjos.
So the Gen. ending -eo>,
for -do (-rjo).
(2) By compensatory lengthening, of
e to ei, in etz;o? (gevFos) but ^67, /cetro'j and KCVOS, irelpap and
Tiepas (aTretpeVtoj), eimros, etreKa.
o to ou, JJLOVVOS (but fj,ov(i)6ti$
II. II. 470)
; oupoy ( watcher] but
op-da) : ovpea and opos (dpfos ?).
a in Trape'xfl (Trap-o-exa)),
Od. 19. 1 13 ; u in crvvexes, H. 12. 26.
Under this head we should place double forms arising by Epenthesis,
as e'rapoj
and Iratpo? (for rap-tos)
:
z^t,
e/^ and etz\
But aTrepeiVios boundless should be d7rep?ja-tos,
from ^Trepi] (ir^prjv).
Other variations, of which no general account can be given,
are seen in "Aprjs, avr\p, djudw / reap (d generally in the simple
Verb, d in the compounds) ;