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The Ogham Genitive Singular in -AIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Louis H. Gray
Louis H. Gray*
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Columbia University
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Abstract

[Genitives in -ais (and -ai) from io-stems are assumed to contain *-ois, the ending of the IE i-stems. Attention is directed to the same meta-plasm in Oscan-Umbrian. Messapian -aihi, etc., may continue *-ois-i, and contain a double genitival ending, if the last syllable is to be connected with the genitival -ī of Latin and Celtic.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 5 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1929 , pp. 251 - 253
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Copyright © 1929 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 R. A. S. Macalister, Studies in Irish Epigraphy, nos. 10, 218, London, 1897-1907; J. MacNeill, ‘Notes on the Distribution, History, Grammar, and Import of the Irish Ogham Inscriptions’, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 27 (1909). Section C, no. 15 (pp. 329-70), pp. 343, 345, 357. For the meaning of muc(c)o(i), Old Irish moccu, see ib. 366-7, and cf. A. Holder, Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz 2. 649-50, Leipzig, 1896 sqq.; H. Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen 2.16, Göttingen, 1909-13.

2 Holder 3. 453-4, 455.

3 J. Vendryes, Grammaire du vieil-irlandais 40, Paris, 1908; R. Thurneysen, Handbuch des Alt-Irischen 40-1, Heidelberg, 1909.

4 G. Dottin, La Langue gauloise 60, Paris, 1920.

5 K. Brugmann, Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen 2 2. 2. 288-9, Strassburg, 1911.

6 See F. Bechtel, Die griechischen Dialekte 2. 815, Berlin, 1921-4.

7 R. von Planta, Grammatik der oskisch-umbrischen Dialekte 2.105-9, 150-1, 173, Strassburg, 1892-7.

8 H. Jacobsohn, Altitalische Inschriften nos. 824, 88a,b, 89, 97, 113, Bonn, 1910.

9 Ib., nos. 104, 126, 117.

10 Where s seems to stand between vowels, it appears really to mark the end of a word, as hipades[-]aprodta, no. 110d; cf. aprodita[-]hipades, no. 100.

11 Jacobsohn, nos. 170, 185, 193, 8.

12 G. Herbig (in M. Ebert, Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte 8. 170, Berlin, 1927) regards -aihi as equivalent to -aī and -ihi as equivalent to -ī. Cf., in support of his view, Umbrian ihi = ī (persnihimu: persnimu), aha = ā (spahata: spahmu: spafu), oho = ō (comohota: Lat. commōta), ehe = ē (sehemu: semu) (von Planta, 1. 59); similarly, if rarely, in Old High German, e.g. emezzihic: emezzîc; gitahan: gitân; seher: sêr (W. Braune, Althochdeutsche Grammatik 3 §152 b, Anm. 3, Halle, 1911).