Here, as in the -s-stems, the forms in -dr, -ér
are specialised for masculine and feminine forms
with different vocalism (on the ordinary theory)
according to the position of the accent: -ér but -dr.*
-or-, -er-, -r, and -r are also found in these stems;
-or- and -er- in the accusative, -r and -r in the
weakest cases of the declension. The neuters have
-r (-rr) in the nominative singular: οὖθαρ, or in
some cases possibly -7, σκ-ώρ, ὕδ-ωρ, and they


1 According to Buck, Der oskische Vocalismus, p. 100. Bronisch
takes it as from the strong form of the suffix, but is refuted by
Brugmann, Berichte der Kin. Stichs. Ges, der Wissenschaften, 1893,
p- 138. Gk. forms like ἐρρηγεῖα (Heraclea), etc., seem to show that
the feminine form had originally -wes-i in the nom., -us- in the
weak oblique cases.
2 For Oscan .=é see Appendix C, ὃ 661.
3 In Skt. the mom. sing. of 7 and w stems never has the final
consonant; thus svasd, Latin soror (*svesdr), ουᾶ κύων. The
simplest explanation is that in the sentence the final sound was
assimilated to the first sound of the succeeding word, the origin of
Double forms (§ 237).
* Schmidt (Pluralb. p. 193) takes these forms as collectives.
— TT ee


— ἊΨ
7 » —_ b
A ὐκ» μμμμμδων, δον Δ...
πῦρ ζας. ἝΞ ee








δ». “ὦ.
—§355 STEMS ENDING IN LIQUIDS 355


carry weak forms throughout. Closely connected
with these forms are others which in some
languages show -¢ as the final suffix, Skt. yakrt,
Gk. ἧπαρ, Lat. y4eue All stems of this form
regularly show an -n-stem in the genitive: Skt.
