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... verbs as told , sold , & c . The Gothic saljan , to sell , represents the primitive form of the verb in which umlaut has not taken place , as it has in O. Eng . sellan ( = selian ) . In the infinitive mood and present tense the suffix i ...
... verbs as told , sold , & c . The Gothic saljan , to sell , represents the primitive form of the verb in which umlaut has not taken place , as it has in O. Eng . sellan ( = selian ) . In the infinitive mood and present tense the suffix i ...
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... verbs , and forms a reflexive suffix : as O.N. at falla fall down , and sik = self , produce the reflexive ( or middle ) verb at fallask . = Sk is still further worn down to st , and when added to the verb renders it passive , as O. N. ...
... verbs , and forms a reflexive suffix : as O.N. at falla fall down , and sik = self , produce the reflexive ( or middle ) verb at fallask . = Sk is still further worn down to st , and when added to the verb renders it passive , as O. N. ...
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... verbs , as he loveth = he loves . But this was once a dialectical peculiarity . 18. There are other changes that must not be confounded with the permutations coming under Grimm's Law : the chief are those that arise from an endeavour to ...
... verbs , as he loveth = he loves . But this was once a dialectical peculiarity . 18. There are other changes that must not be confounded with the permutations coming under Grimm's Law : the chief are those that arise from an endeavour to ...
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... verbs had disappeared , while in the south of England the old forms were kept up , to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian words— ( 1 ) in the local nomenclature of ...
... verbs had disappeared , while in the south of England the old forms were kept up , to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian words— ( 1 ) in the local nomenclature of ...
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... verbs . 3. Prepositions and conjunctions . 4. Nouns forming their plural by change of vowel . 5. Verbs forming their past tense by change of vowel . 6. Adjectives forming their degrees of comparison irregularly . II . 1. Grammatical ...
... verbs . 3. Prepositions and conjunctions . 4. Nouns forming their plural by change of vowel . 5. Verbs forming their past tense by change of vowel . 6. Adjectives forming their degrees of comparison irregularly . II . 1. Grammatical ...
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adjectives adverbs Ayenbite become blindan Cæsar century we find Chaucer cloth cognate compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension Edition ending fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine 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 passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF perfect period we find personal pronouns plural prefix preposition PRES Present Indicative prisun Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix superlative syllable Teutonic ther THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou vowel weak verbs West Midland Wickliffe writers þæt þat
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