Progress in Language; With Special Reference to English
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-as, — , -an, -a, -e, -u, -|-, (-ru, -es), (-n, -^e). Ace. sg. — , -e, -u, -an, -ne, (-a, -n). //. -as, — , -an, -a, -e, -u, -|-, (-ru, -es), (-n, -he). Dat. {instr.) sg. -e, -an, -re, +, — , -um, (-m, -a, -u, -n, -a), (-1- e). pi. -um, (-an, -m, -n, -rum). Gen. sg. -es, -an, -e, -re, -f-, (-a, -n), ( — , -s, -u). pi. -a, -ena [-ana], -ra, (-na), (-an). 128. (70) The Old English language has no ex- pressions for the following syntactic categories, which were found in the Arian parent speech : (...i) the dual number ; the only exceptions are wit, unc(it), uncer and git, inc{it\ incer ; the nouns duru, nosu, and breost, in which traces of the old dual have been found by comparative philologists, were no doubt during the whole of the Old English period, and per- haps even much earlier, felt as singulars, and sculdru as a plural ; (2) the vocative case, unless one feels inclined to consider the use of the definite form of the adjective in leofa freond, etc., as a sort of vocative.^ > See Rask, Det GamU Nordiske Sprogs Oprindelse, p.
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