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fuller forms: maghe, moghe, magh, forinagha = forma; brndhlops glädhi; 

 daRlige (as in Danish) = dålige; sunnandagh; in A, B, maghske = 

 måske; in B tighe = tio. 



JSfouns. — There are peculiar genders and plurals. MENNISKIR, 

 MENNISKE, is fem., Lut also masc. — TIDHER, TIDH is masc, as 

 often in the very oldest Icelandic; j svva longhan tidh, naghon tidh, 

 oppa en annan tidh; HIARTHA, HIARTHA, is sometimes fem. as in Old 

 Engl, etc.; We have such ac. pi. as FOLKE, HIÂRTEKNE = järtecken; 

 STYKKE, neut., has its pi. STYKKE. — In B RIKE is neut.', but also 

 fern. — MYLSWNDH, in B p. 24, is a costly word for mildhet. — The 

 S of the gen. sing, is often elided in the usual way before a sibilant: 

 for werdz are loft' skul eller for kropsens lust skul; for werdz loft" skul, 

 eller for eth hop skul; for naghen hedher skul; for gudheligha bön skul. 

 So also in B. — Then we have : y (idhmywkheth liknilse, vnder ödh- 

 mywkhetz liknilse, . widh dödheligx sjmdh both. — In g. s. f. j nepstha 

 liknilse, medli uapsthe liknilse, moth gudz ok the helgha kyrke bodh, 

 gudz eller the helgha kerkyo bodh. — In the oldest manner, the pi. n. 

 ac. has often no -R; eghedela, gernynga, penninga, pänningha, weghna, 

 rikedoma, etc. etc. In B this -R is usually added. — We have also the 

 vowel-change: snärär = snaror, med näghlom = med naglar. — The g. 

 pi. is often -E, wise manne, etc. — Many words, to be grammatically 

 iniderstood, must be taken as compounds: godh-gernyng, godh-gernyngen, 

 gudh-gernyngar, radh-spörgilse, äre-loff. 



Adjectives. — • Such in -IN (-EN) n). f., -ITH (-ETH) neut., play a 

 great part, as might be expected at this time in Sweden: bräkelighen, 

 merkelighin, skadhelighen, rolighen, dödhelighin, etc. — Otherwise, when 

 strictl};' declined, the common adjective offers little remarkable. The 

 usual paradigm will be: 



