incipientibus, solent loco digamma β scribere, indicantes10 debere praeponi digamma quasi uocali: sed rursus quasi consonanti11 digamma in eadem syllaba praeponere recusantes, commotabant id in β .…. sed apud Graecos haec litera, id est ρ, multis modis fungitur loco uocalis…ut ωρα12, ωρας13….
Quaeritur, cur in ‘uah,’ ‘nah14,’ ‘ah’ post uocales ponitur aspiratio, et dicimus, quod apogope15 facta est extremae uocalis cui praeponebatur aspiratio; nam perfecta ‘uaha,’ ‘naha,’ ‘aha.’ Ideo autem abscisione extremae uocalis16 tamen aspiratio mansit ex superiore pendens uocali17, quia suum18 est interiectionis uoce abscondita19 proferri. Itaque pars absconditae extremitatis20 uidetur congruae in interiectionis naturali prolatione remansisse … etiam in fine21 ….
P. 10 a
interiectionum autem pleraeque communes sunt naturaliter omnium gentium uoces1.
Inter c sine aspiratione et c cum aspiratione est g2 … inter p et ph3 sine f est b4 … Hoc5 autem ostendit etiam ipsius palati pulsus et linguae uel labrorum consimilis est quidem6 in ternís7, in p et ph uel f et b et rursus in c et ch et g, similiter inter t et th et d. Sed in leuibus8 exterior fit pulsus, in asperis interior, in mediis inter utrumque supra dictorum locum, quod facile denoscitur, si adtendamus in supra dictis motibus ora mirabili naturae lege modo-
10: isairi nobíth digaimm leo ante ρ· sin[1]11: amal bith dochonsain amal asṅdi12: crích13: agenitiu · arguttai tra atá ·ρ· sin[1]14: interiectio inso15: ablatio in fine16: .i. a .i. dirogbad · a · díib17: lenaid dingutai thóisig18: .i. proprium .i. issainreth do interiecht guth formúigthe cotrummai thinfid19: formúchthai20: indḟormúichdetad21: fodeud
P. 10 a
1: ataat alaaili interiecta and itcoitchena docach ceniul2: medónda etarru fogur ·g·3: medóndæ etarru4: is cummmae limm etir · ph · ⁊ f ·5: ata medóndai6: is cosmail afogur .i. cosmailius foguir beos7: .i. isnaib tredib8: ·c· t· p· isairi asbertar étrumma ⁊ slemna huare nád techtad[2] tinfeth
10. this is why they used to have digamma before ρ here.11. as it were to a consonant, (or) as to it.12. a boundary.13. its genitive: ρ then stands for a vowel here. 14. this is an interjection. 16. that is a, i.e. a has been taken from them. 17. it adheres to the preceding vowel. 18. i.e. a peculiarity of an interjection is a smothered sound with heaviness of aspiration. 20. of the smothering.
P. 10 a
1. there are some interjections common to every nation.2. intermediate between them (is the) sound g.3. intermediate between them.4. ’tis the same to me, both ph and f.5. that they are intermediate.6. their sound is alike, i.e. (there is) still a resemblance of sound.8. c, t and p, therefore they are called ‘light’ (lĕves) and ‘smooth’ (lēves), because they have no aspiration.
