Historical Outlines of English Accidence, Comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word-formation |
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adjectives adverb Aryan Ayenbite became century we find Chaucer cognate comparative compound consonants dæt dative declension denoting dropped ending English we find feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French origin gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek High German indefinite infinitive inflexions language Latin Lazamon masc masculine Middle English Midland Modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialects nouns numerous O.Fr occurs Old English Old High German older oldest English Ormulum passive participle Past Indicative past participle past tense perf period we find person plural prefix preposition PRES Present Indicative PRET preterite pronouns Robert of Brunne root root-vowel Sansk Sanskrit Saxon SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf singular sometimes sound Southern Spenser spirants stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth century thou twelfth Verner's Law vowel weak verbs Wickliffe words writers þan þat
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Page 187 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Page 197 - For on his carcass raiment had he none, Save clouts and patches, pieced one by one; With staff in hand and scrip on shoulders cast, His chief defence against the winter's blast. His food, for most, was wild fruits of the tree, **° Unless...