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... feminine -ess taking the place of -en , and -ster . Cp . dwelleresse in Wicliffe for dwellstere ; goddesse ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age , till - age , hindr - ance , knave - ry , wondr - ous ...
... feminine -ess taking the place of -en , and -ster . Cp . dwelleresse in Wicliffe for dwellstere ; goddesse ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age , till - age , hindr - ance , knave - ry , wondr - ous ...
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... feminine gender ; but when webb - a ( m ) , webb - e ( f ) , a weaver , came to be represented by the same form , webbe , then the final -e , if retained as a sign of gender , must be limited either to the mas- culine or feminine . An ...
... feminine gender ; but when webb - a ( m ) , webb - e ( f ) , a weaver , came to be represented by the same form , webbe , then the final -e , if retained as a sign of gender , must be limited either to the mas- culine or feminine . An ...
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... feminine noun , and Moon as masculine . This usage was kept up as late as the fourteenth century , and later still in rare instances . 80. In the oldest English , the grammatical distinction of words as masculine , feminine and neuter ...
... feminine noun , and Moon as masculine . This usage was kept up as late as the fourteenth century , and later still in rare instances . 80. In the oldest English , the grammatical distinction of words as masculine , feminine and neuter ...
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... feminine gender , and the names of inanimate things of the neuter gender ; so that , strictly speaking , the so - called genders in modern English do not belong to the words at all , but only to the objects they represent . The only ...
... feminine gender , and the names of inanimate things of the neuter gender ; so that , strictly speaking , the so - called genders in modern English do not belong to the words at all , but only to the objects they represent . The only ...
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... feminine in -en is rarely met with . -en . Cp . The change from o to i is regular when compared with the old English god ( god ) , gyd - en ( goddess ) , and wulf ( wolf ) , wylfen ( she - wolf ) . Cp . Ger . Fuchs , Füchs - inn . This ...
... feminine in -en is rarely met with . -en . Cp . The change from o to i is regular when compared with the old English god ( god ) , gyd - en ( goddess ) , and wulf ( wolf ) , wylfen ( she - wolf ) . Cp . Ger . Fuchs , Füchs - inn . This ...
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