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XIV Preface.
dubithir 6636 n. = comduh 'as black', glaisithir 6637 n. = com-
glas 'as blue', and remitJiir 5943 n. = comremur 'as thick'.
(3) the use of the ordinals to denote one of the group
indicated. For example : ind-ara 'one of two', tres 'one of three',
cethramad 'one of four', coked 'one of five', oclitmad dec 'one
of eighteen'. For references to these forms see the Glossarial Index.
(4) the nominal preposition cJiu-ind 2719, 5719, 6198 or
chu-inn 2726 n.^), synonymous with do-chumm-n 'zu, nach, in,
(meist nach Verben der Bewegung)', Wind. Wtb. 493. Here ind
'vertex, end', is possibly cognate with the Greek mountain-name
IJivóog ^), and cumm-n, from *Jcudsmen, is probably cognate with
ct Ytiufe^iüL^ the reduphcated Slcr. kahU, kaJmdmän, Lat. cacümen.
°*^^|^ Lastly, I entreat all students of this book to repay me
for the time and labour that I have bestowed upon it, by making
in their copies the corrections mentioned in pp. 485—437.
Cowes, Isle of Wight. September 1900. W. S.
*) Other examples of this preposition, which is ignored by the grammars
and dictionaries, are: docuaid se cu inn taisidh [leg. taisigh] na sacart, H.
2. 17, p. 100a, rangadur na hairgid sin a n-oigi-eacht cu ind na lubal,
ibid, an uair do tiucfad cu irm in brithemnais, ibid. 102^. do cuir se cu
ind Eroid ée, ibid. lOBb.
2) It cannot be connected, as some have supposed, with Goth, andeis,
Germ, ende, this being from *antyó-, cognate with Skr. ánta. An Old-
Irish et 'ende, spitze', cited by Kluge (s. v. Ende) and Uhlenbeck, (s. v. v.
andeis, ánta-s) does not exist with this meaning.