An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students
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(p. 83), to which I am much indebted through- out this chapter. Vl] CHANGE 141 changed on the analogy of the other persons to aimons, aimez. The same levelling is seen on comparing New Testament Greek with Attic, e.g.: — oioa oiSa, oicraa olSa^, olSe(v) oiSe(i^), ia/jiev oiSafiev, tcrre otoare, icrdcrt(v) ^ oiSdaiiv), where, however, the changes are due to the great number of verbs which form their Perfects in -a, -a?, -afiev, k.t.X. Similarly in Latin leposem, honosem (nominative lepos, j^ han...ds) became leporem, honor em, by the Phonetic Law that s (z) between vowels changed in Latin at a certain period into r. By the beginning of the Silvei' Age the nominative, in which the law did not hold good, had become lepor, honor, on the analogy of the other cases. Cicero, however, wrote lepos, honos, and similar forms occur in Vergil. In English, Analogy has nearly succeeded in making all , , nouns make their plural in -s. Thus the books, cows , '■ _ _ Old English plural of hoc, 'book,' was bee, just as the plural of foot is feet; and the plural of cow in the Authorised Version is kine^.
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