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ADAM Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon genitive apostrophised Arthur called cayne century dative declensions Dersua dialect dominant noun Dorset English Enom erar erar nomne erer erer nomneper erus Etruscan facito father feitu feminine fetu Friesian gans German Grabouie Grammar Greek gwryes Hengest henna heri horse Ibid inflexional genitive Johnsonian king language Latin Layamon masculine mean ministrato mixed possessive augment narratu ocre ocriper Fisiu omma Ormulum Oscan ostentu Percy Society pesnimu Philological phrase plural Pone possessive augment possessive genitive Postquam prepositional prepositional genitive pronominal reflexive relation render Robert of Gloucester root Saxon sense seritu serpent Serse serten singular sone sound termination thee theory theth thou thym tiom totâper Ijouinâ totar Ijouinar totè Tunc Umbrian verb VIIa Vortigerne vyth Welsh word ythew
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Page 179 - Let their habitation be void, and no man to dwell in their tents'. Psalm Ixix, 26 (PrayerBook version). See my note on the 'Passion' St. 175, 1. 2. L. 917. croppya = cropye P. 134, 3, where it seems to mean 'pierce'. Cf. the Engl. 'to crop up' L. 920. dyack a mutation of tyack = 0. Corn. *tioc
Page 43 - I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a rose in his grace." — Much Ado about Nothing, i. 3.
Page 41 - that the same single letter s " on many occasions, does the office of a whole word, and represents the 'his' and 'her' of our forefathers.
Page 41 - She is accustomed to march with leisure, and with a certain granditie rather than gravity; unless it be when she walketh apace for her pleasure, or to catch her a heate in the cold weather.
Page 65 - which distinctions not observed, brought in first the monstrous syntax of the pronoun his joining with a noun betokening a possessor, as 'the prince his house,' for 'the prince's house.
Page 54 - 1842 to 1853, at a cost to the Members of TWELVE GUINEAS. The Council of the Society having been enabled to complete a limited number of sets by reprinting a portion, have now issued the sets at the reduced price of THREE POUNDS. The Philological Society's Transactions, 1854, One Guinea. The Philological Society's Transactions,
Page 51 - shot from between the thumb and forefinger by young folks after saying, " Kernel, come, kernel! hop over my thumb, And tell me which way my true-love will come; East, west, north, or south, Kernel, jump into my true-love's mouth.
Page 46 - The backer upright timber of a gate by which it is hung to its post. The one in the middle, between the harrow and the head, is the middle spear, which is also the name of the upright beam that takes the two leaves of a barn's door.
Page 47 - A warden of the fences, or of a common, whose duty it is to see that it is not stocked by those who have no right of common. He sometimes "drives the common;" ie drives all the stock in it into a corner, and pounds such as is not owned by those who have a right of common.
Page 75 - And others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way."— Mark xi.