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... Present ran as shown in the following specimen : Root nam , take ; a word retained by us till A.D. 1500.1 1. nama - mi • 1st Per . ma , me . 2nd Per . ta , thou . 2. nama - si 3. nama - ti 4. nama - masi . 5. nama - tasi 6. nama - nti ...
... Present ran as shown in the following specimen : Root nam , take ; a word retained by us till A.D. 1500.1 1. nama - mi • 1st Per . ma , me . 2nd Per . ta , thou . 2. nama - si 3. nama - ti 4. nama - masi . 5. nama - tasi 6. nama - nti ...
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... Presents , and which used their old Per- fects as Presents , forming for themselves new weak 1 Few Sanscrit verbs have this form , so common in English . 2 Archdeacon Hare always spelt preached as preacht . Still , it is the English th ...
... Presents , and which used their old Per- fects as Presents , forming for themselves new weak 1 Few Sanscrit verbs have this form , so common in English . 2 Archdeacon Hare always spelt preached as preacht . Still , it is the English th ...
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... Present tense , like wit or vid . Our verbs may , can , shall , will , must , dare ( most of which we use , with their new Perfects , as auxiliary verbs ) , have been formed like wot , and are Irregulars . Our verb to be is most ...
... Present tense , like wit or vid . Our verbs may , can , shall , will , must , dare ( most of which we use , with their new Perfects , as auxiliary verbs ) , have been formed like wot , and are Irregulars . Our verb to be is most ...
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... Present Plural of their Verb ( a point in which Old English fails woefully ) , almost as it is in Sanscrit and Latin ; why the Low Germans ( this term includes the Goths and English ) should in general have clung closer to the old ...
... Present Plural of their Verb ( a point in which Old English fails woefully ) , almost as it is in Sanscrit and Latin ; why the Low Germans ( this term includes the Goths and English ) should in general have clung closer to the old ...
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... PRESENT TENSE OF THE VERB niman , to take ; whence comes our numb . Old English . Gothic . Old High German . Old Norse . Ic nime nima nimu nem pu nimest nimis nimis nemr he nimeð nimip nimit nemr we nimað ge nimað nimam nemames nemum hi ...
... PRESENT TENSE OF THE VERB niman , to take ; whence comes our numb . Old English . Gothic . Old High German . Old Norse . Ic nime nima nimu nem pu nimest nimis nimis nemr he nimeð nimip nimit nemr we nimað ge nimað nimam nemames nemum hi ...
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adjective adverbs akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Camden Society charyte Chaucer clipped comes compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danish diction Dutch Early English Text EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society French words German gode Greek Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene himm Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord North Northern nouns obsolete Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Participle patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit seen sense shires sone sound South Southern specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb wass Wickliffe wipp write written Yorkshire þat
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