A grammar of the Homeric dialect - Wilbourhall.org

374 METRE. [394.
and v were afterwards identical in sound, and that in the modern language
both are = i.
Words with initial v are not found in Homer with p but we cannot in
;
this case speak of the loss of p the combination fv having been originally
impossible.
The remaining instances in which loss of F may be assumed
in Homeric words are few, and for the most part open to
question.
e\Kco, root valk or vlak (Knb's, following Curtius) f is perhaps seen in
:
icard uXica (II. 13. 707., Od. 1 8. 375). This account of the word separates
it from Lat. sulcus.
IXeiv, iXup, possibly to be connected with Lat. vollur the bird of prey.
instances of hiatus before eXcop are hardly enough to prove p.
\os, from which the name Velia is said by Dionysius Hal. (Arch. i. 20)
to be derived, has no p in Homer (II.
2. 584, 594., 20. 221, Od. 14. 474).
The p of this word is also wanting in the Cyprian dialect (Deecke and
Siegismund, Curt. Stud. vii. 249).
*HXis, 'HXetos is without p in Homer : /"aX-ffCot
is the form found on Elean
and Laconian inscriptions.
?|Xos (Lat. vallus) rejects p in II. n. 29 tv 84 oi 77X01 the two other : places
where it occurs prove nothing.
ISiw, ISpws (root svid} the :
a-p
is lost in Homer.
IKCO, iKvtojjiai : the derivation from the root viq is quite uncertain.
loTtt) (Lat. Vesta) : the forms av-ferios, 40-ecmos show that the p
The
is lost in
Homer (as also in the Laconian, Locrian, and Boeotian dialects, see 404).
394.] Initial S/7 . This combination is to be recognised in
two groups of words :
Sfei- (Sfi-),
eScura (so Ar.), Seos, SeiwSs, SciXos, &C.
A short vowel is frequently lengthened before these words, as
II. I.
515 v TOL ^7rt S 'Q?J II- II - 37 7rc P' ** Aei/xos re