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§§ 207, 208 The suff. -awt is the past part. pass, in -to- ofa-stems ; thus *-a-to-s > -awt. Cf. barvawt B.T. 2 1 ' bearded ' < Lat. barbatus ; edig is an extension in *-l-ko- of this ; thus, *-a-tiko-s > -edig. aid 153 (2).

-adwy is the fut. pass. part, in *-teuio- ; the -a- before it may be from unacc. a or from ; thus ofnadwy < *obna-touws 76 v (4) : Skr. kar-tavyct-h ' faciendus ' ; ediw is a variant of this due to inetath. 78 iv (i). The rhyme (glyw) B.P. 1041 shows that the -iw is for -yw after the dental 77 v. The element *-teu- seems to have been used also with suff. -no- to form verbal adjs., which mostly became nouns in W. : credadun ' believing ' D.G. 54, ' credible ' M.A. i 5636, usually 'believer ' < Brit. *kreta-tou-no- ; amheuthun ' unac- customed fare, treat', adj. 'unwonted', for *am-(w)heithun 77viii <*inbi-suek-tou-no- : chweith ' taste ' 108 iv (a), pref. 'different' 156 i (4) (d), hence ' change of diet' ; yspardun s.G. 2 ' spur' : yspar 96 iv (i). Participles in -to- formed from cons, stems sur- vive as nouns: talctith 'frontlet, crown', Ml. W. talheith B.B. 106 <*tdlo-8ekta ' forehead-attachment ', V seg*- : Skr. sdjati ' attaches ', Lith. segu ' I fasten, attach ', saktls ' buckle '.

COMPOUND VERBS.

207. i. The prefixes compounded with verbs are mostly the same as those compounded with nouns and adjectives ; see 156.

ii. A verb may also be compounded with a noun or adj.; as efe a Iwyr-lanhd ei lawr dyrnu Matt, iii 1 2 ; see 45 iii. The verb forms the second element, and has its initial softened, like the second element of a noun-compound. The initial of the first element becomes that of the compound verb, and is softened after the rel. a, remains rad. after the rel. y, etc., like the initial of a verb.

PREPOSITIONS

208. i. Personal pronouns forming objects of prepositions in Brit, and Goidelic came to be agglutinated to the prepositions, and ultimately developed into mere inflexions. The " conjuga- tion " so formed was very similar in W. to that of the verb, and was influenced in its later development by verbal forms.

ii. (i) Inflected prepositions have two forms, m. and f. of the 3rd sg., and one for each of the other persons sg. and pi. Many have in addition an adverbial form ; and all preserve their unin-