AN ESSAY

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IN THE HISTORY OF

THE INDO-EUROPEAN SIBILANTS

BY

R. SEYMOUR CONWAY, B.A.

FOUNDATION SCHOLAR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WADDINGTON CLASSICAL SCHOLAR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, EXHIBITIONER IN LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,

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Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

PRAECEPTORIBUS MEIS

ET INTER EOS POTISSIMUM

GULIELMO GEORGIO RUSHBROOKE

LITERARUM HUMANIORUM AC LINGUAE SANSCRITICAE

AD SCHOLAM CIVITATIS LONDINENSIS

REVERENDO DOCTORI

HUNC QUEMCUNQUE FASCICULUM

D. D. D.

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PREFATORY NOTE

INTRODUCTION. (First principles: scope of the Essay: title:

results hitherto accepted: results of the Essay.) §§ 1-5.

I. THE PHONETIC RELATION OF S AND R. (Nature of the

change of S to R: its physiological and historical causes:

note on s and ch in Old Church Slavonic: s before nasals

and other consonants in Latin.) §§ 6-13

II. S BETWEEN VOWELS IN UMBRIAN. (Chronology of the Iguvine

tables accent in Oscan and Umbrian: discussion of the

Umbrian evidence: eso- or esso- in Italic?) §§ 14-27

III. S BETWEEN VOWELS IN OSCAN. (Extent of the Oscan evi-

dence its discussion: tt or ss in Oscan and pro-ethnic

Italic? Note on Bartholomae's theory.) §§ 28-30

IV. RHOTACISM IN THE MINOR ITALIC DIALECTS. (Enumeration:
Picentine Marrucinian: Sabine: Pelignian: Marsian:
Volscian Faliscan: classification: Mr Heawood's map.)
§§ 31-39

V. S BETWEEN VOWELS IN LATIN.

A. INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS. (Aspect of the ques-

tion special characteristics of the change: borrowing:

date of rhotacism in Latin: the change of the Latin accent:

list of words: elimination of irrelevant examples.) §§ 40

-52.

B. EVIDENCE AS TO THE CAUSES OF THE CHANGE OF STO

R. §§ 53-60

C. EVIDENCE AS TO THE CHANGE OF ACCENT.

§ 61

APPENDIX.

A. THE SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF S BETWEEN VOWELS IN

LATIN AND ROMANCE. §§ 62-66

B. FINAL S IN ARYAN. §§ 67-74