[The so-called prothetic vowel in Greek finds its ultimate explanation in Indo-Hittite. In Indo-Hittite bases beginning with the first, third, or fourth laryngeal, the first syllable was retained everywhere if it was in the full grade. If it was in the reduced grade, it was lost everywhere except in Hittite, Greek, and Armenian. If the second consonant was w, the first three laryngeals could unite with it to form a long voiceless hw which appears as spiritus asper in Greek; this accounts for the Attic and Homeric alteration of δvov and δvov. If the initial syllable began with the second laryngeal (;) and was in the reduced grade, it was lost everywhere, but the laryngeal united with a following liquid or nasal to give the long voiceless λ, , which ‘make position’ in Homer.]

[This article assumes that the Germanic phenomenon known as Verschärfung was due to the IE long voiceless semivowels hj and hw with an immediately following accent. These semivowels, in turn, resulted from an IH laryngeal consonant immediately preceding IH w or j.]

[The paper follows the development of the suffix -ivu in classical and medieval Latin and in the Romance languages, with the purpose of establishing the syntactic and semantic changes which it underwent and of determining the channels through which it filtered down from Latin into the vernaculars. Special attention is devoted to the substantival use of -ivu, as in Fr. l'objectif, l'initiative. See the summary at the end of the article.]

[Latin cŏr ‘heart’ and chorda ‘string, cord, chord’ have been proposed as the origin of Spanish acordar. Examples from early texts show that all the principal meanings of acordar are to be found in cŏr and related words. Chorda accounts for only the meanings ‘harmonize, agree’ and not for the meanings that refer to mental and emotional states. Although there may be an overlapping of cŏr and chorda in the meanings ‘harmonize, agree’, cŏr, since it could account for all meanings, should also appear in REW §71a. It should be stated that of the two Latin words chorda occupies the second place of importance.]

[Ugaritic does not share in the features which are most characteristic of Canaanite, in particular the Canaanite innovations. Hence it cannot be classified as a dialect of the Canaanite branch of Semitic. Ugaritic displays, however, a definite relationship to the language of the Amurrites, for which the name ‘East Canaanite’ is to be rejected. A part of the alleged Old Canaanite' words preserved in Egyptian transliteration likewise originate with the Amurrites, who played an important rôle in Palestine as well as in Syria.]

[This paper gives for the first time a comprehensive survey of Finnish dissyllabic e-stem nouns for the purpose of clarifying the declensional patterns. Words that cannot be classified by general rules are listed in full.]

[While most of the Algonquian languages east of the Plains show one reflex for each consonant or consonant cluster in the parent language, Delaware shows multiple reflexes in some instances but is very conservative in others. The reflexes are given and stages of development are postulated in conclusion.]