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... appear as anomalous . Yet the general validity of the rules admits of no doubt . The following examples will serve ... appears with a variety of vowel- sounds , as in sing , sang , sung , song ; bind , bound , band , bond . Similar ...
... appear as anomalous . Yet the general validity of the rules admits of no doubt . The following examples will serve ... appears with a variety of vowel- sounds , as in sing , sang , sung , song ; bind , bound , band , bond . Similar ...
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... appear thus most frequently and regularly in the earliest Teutonic idioms ; many words which had them in the Anglo ... appears only in the Gothic , and there only in the first and second persons . The pronouns of the same persons show a ...
... appear thus most frequently and regularly in the earliest Teutonic idioms ; many words which had them in the Anglo ... appears only in the Gothic , and there only in the first and second persons . The pronouns of the same persons show a ...
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... appear to have come in great part from the districts now called Sleswick and Holstein , on the eastern shores of the North Sea . The Angles , who seem to have been the most numerous portion , established themselves in the east and north ...
... appear to have come in great part from the districts now called Sleswick and Holstein , on the eastern shores of the North Sea . The Angles , who seem to have been the most numerous portion , established themselves in the east and north ...
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... appear to have settled in large numbers , except in the eastern part of the island . A trace of their existence here is still seen in Ashby , Rugby , Whitby , and many other names of places with the same ending ; for -by is the ...
... appear to have settled in large numbers , except in the eastern part of the island . A trace of their existence here is still seen in Ashby , Rugby , Whitby , and many other names of places with the same ending ; for -by is the ...
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... appears to be , that in England , as well as in Normandy , the Scandinavian settlers did not long retain their mother - tongue , but gave it up for the more cultivated idiom of the people among whom they settled . At the same time ...
... appears to be , that in England , as well as in Normandy , the Scandinavian settlers did not long retain their mother - tongue , but gave it up for the more cultivated idiom of the people among whom they settled . At the same time ...
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4th Edition äfter Anglo-Saxon belong blindan Book C. S. Calverley century Chaucer consonant Crown 8vo dative declension declined dede Demy 8vo dialect Dictionary Elementary Treatise ending England ENGLISH LANGUAGE F. A. Paley Fcap forms French words genitive Geometry George Bell gode goden goden Gothic Grammar Greek helpen High German hulpe hwät idioms Indo-European inflected inflexion J. W. Donaldson Jhesus king kingen Latin Layamon lond M.A. 3rd Edition M.A. Fcap Masc modern English neut Norman number of words Ormulum participle pass passive participle peculiar perf perfect Piers Ploughman Plur plural Post 8vo preposition pres primary inflexion pronoun Prose R. C. Jebb root Saxon secondary inflexion Semi-Saxon seó sing sometimes spoken Subj syllable Teutonic languages thâ tham thät thatt thiss thou Translation verbs of primary verbs of secondary Verse vowel W. H. Besant wäs writers
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