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... expression , as- = O.E. elles , a genitive of el = alius . = on less . else unless least = but = thy læsed minus . be out = ( O.E. bi - utan ) . likewise = in like wise ( manner ) . & c . & c . G CHAPTER X. SUBSTANTIVES . I. GENDER . 66 ...
... expression , as- = O.E. elles , a genitive of el = alius . = on less . else unless least = but = thy læsed minus . be out = ( O.E. bi - utan ) . likewise = in like wise ( manner ) . & c . & c . G CHAPTER X. SUBSTANTIVES . I. GENDER . 66 ...
Page 84
... expression knave- girle occurs in the sense of boy . Wench is a shortened form of the O.E. wenchel , which in the " Ormulum " is applied to Isaac , and was originally a word of the common gender . In a metrical version of the Old and ...
... expression knave- girle occurs in the sense of boy . Wench is a shortened form of the O.E. wenchel , which in the " Ormulum " is applied to Isaac , and was originally a word of the common gender . In a metrical version of the Old and ...
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... expressions being he - beast and she - beast . • ( 4 ) Dog and bitch , as dog - fox , bitch - fox , & c . ( 5 ) Buck and doe , as buck - rabbit , doe - rabbit , & c . ( 6 ) Boar and sow , as boar - pig , sow - pig . ( 7 ) Ewe in ewe ...
... expressions being he - beast and she - beast . • ( 4 ) Dog and bitch , as dog - fox , bitch - fox , & c . ( 5 ) Buck and doe , as buck - rabbit , doe - rabbit , & c . ( 6 ) Boar and sow , as boar - pig , sow - pig . ( 7 ) Ewe in ewe ...
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... expressions sometimes occur in which both words , following the French idiom , take the plural , as knights ... expression of casus rectus , because the subject , or the nominative , as they argued , did not fail or rest on anything else ...
... expressions sometimes occur in which both words , following the French idiom , take the plural , as knights ... expression of casus rectus , because the subject , or the nominative , as they argued , did not fail or rest on anything else ...
Page 102
... Jonson's to Addison's time- that s was a contraction of his ; hence such expressions as " the prince his house , " for " the prince's house . " Sometimes we find s added to the principal substantive instead 102 [ CHAP . ENGLISH ACCIDENCE .
... Jonson's to Addison's time- that s was a contraction of his ; hence such expressions as " the prince his house , " for " the prince's house . " Sometimes we find s added to the principal substantive instead 102 [ CHAP . ENGLISH ACCIDENCE .
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth cognate College compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension demonstrative ELEMENTARY ending Extra fcap fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek HISTORY indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine Midland modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger occurs Old English older oldest English originally Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural preposition PRES Professor Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Schools Second Edition SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou TREATISE twelfth vowel weak verbs West Midland writers þæt þat
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