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of a semi-consonantal partition between 

 two vocalic sounds. But in the later Lists 

 we have the silent ^-final. Thus in buske, 

 braky ne, codde, come, doke, rose (p. 6^), 

 wortte. 



Genitives: — cus (?), crawan, cymnges, 

 fugeles, grundes, haran^ hrefnes^ lean. 



In-ing: — m^elfyrding , hwiting, simer- 

 ing (?), smering, tunsing. 



Adjectives : — brune, colleii haughty, 

 cwic^ greate, hwit, supe, weal (wal) 

 foreign. 



The latter adjective appears in weal 

 wyrt, the gloss for Ebulus, the Dwarf 

 Elder_, now called Danewort. Here Dane- 

 seems like a translation of weal. Strangely 

 walnot glosses Avelana instead of Juglans ; 

 in Devon the latter is ' French nut.' (I do 

 not include lueal mora here, as the other 

 form luald mora seems preferable.) 



Compounds are however by far the most 

 important part of our subject. And here 

 we cannot venture upon any distinction 

 between syntax and composition. It is the 

 after-part that claims our first attention. 



-beam meant the living tree, as German 



