OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF GOWERS COKKESSIO AM AMIS. 



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-s only is frequently added, especially to nouns termini tug in a liquid or in -t : somotiiu* win u -e§ it ad- 



ded (rightly or wrongly), only -s is pronounc I. 



aungels, iii, 275, 276. 

 cardinals, i. 254. 

 nations, iii. 278. 



courts, iii. 354. 



Sarazins, iii. 216. 

 complexions, iii. 97. 



masons, iii. 167. 

 saints, iii. 188. 



po 



151. 



points, ) i. 149, 157, 372 (3 cases). estat(e)s, iii. 381. 



craftes, iii. 112. 

 climats, iii. 106. 

 herts, 

 hertes. 





elements, iii. 92 (3 cases), 97. 

 jugements, iii. 106. 

 arguments, iii. 146. 

 tiraunts, iii. 206. 



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loTOW, i S : iii. HO, 



Uatrours. iii. l.Vj. 

 {ViIhts, ii. 



\\<T(ls, ) i. 176. 

 worciii, \ i. l.M. 



Qrekfe, ii. 171 <L' cm), 172 (J 



rases). 



Gtt'krK, ii 165, 171. 



kn . knrvft, iii 59 : i. 49, 



tivs, 1i ^s, i. 



§ 22. The following have -en, -n, derived from 

 the Saxon plural in -an of the First Declension. 



eyen, eien (S. eagan), i. 68 : ii. 29, 113, 114 : iii. 



370, etc. 

 oxen (S; oxan), ii. 244, 245, 248 : hut 0X60 (A. 



foxes), ii. 63. 

 ton (S. tan), i. 33. 



§ 23. The following, which have the termination 

 -u in Saxon, have superadded the -en of the First 

 Declension to a weakened form of the Saxon plural. 



m 



f brethren (S. brothru), ii. 164 : iii. GO, 247. 

 <{ bretheren, iii. 38. 

 brethern, ii. 154 : iii. 102, 360. 



bretherne, iii. 37, should be brethern. 

 ildren (S. cildru), i. 148 : ii. 155. 

 doughteren, sistren, do not occur, 

 doughteres, i. 148 : ii. 378 : doughter (?), ii. 



172. 

 susters, ii. 324, 329. 



§ 24. The following have no termination in the 

 plural, according to the rule of Saxon neuters of the 

 Second Declension. 



333 



hots (S. hors), i. 347, 349 f : ii. 35 (2 cas 



110, 161, 199 : iii. 113, 162, 204. 

 thing (S. ping), i. 27 f, 224 : thinge, iii. 



should be thing, 

 yer, wrongly spelt yere (S. gear, ger), I 148, 183 : 



« 



iii. 326. 



and whan thre yer(e) ben full des] nded. i. 197. 

 \ 3 five, thre v< i > arc found togethtr. 



1 s: \. 



full many 3 s, iii. 85G. 



[good is wrongly classed with plurals it) "/..-. on 

 Chaucer, § 25. <*f. Gout, i. L83 (2 

 ii. 78 f, 287 f: good . i. 1-1 ■», ii. 



for other mennes good is swecte, ii. 



the world ) good mi first comunc, iii. 152. 

 We find, to be sure, i. 156, 



what worlilcs good thai thou wnlt crave 



I of my yift, and thou shall have: 



but are should probably be ash.] 

 For "a thousand winter,"' etc. (i. 8<0, see further 

 on, § 100 c. 



§ L'5. The plurals formed 1> change of vow. 1 are 

 the same in (. vver as in M tn Knglish. 



[among the mem shoulde dwell* . i. 3< , should 

 read among the men ne shuhlc dwells.] 



as m 



5 26. The < lenitive 1'lur.il in I Jowcr is tie .'<me 

 "in Modern Knglish. savin.,. Off course, the use 0* 



es instead of s. 



theGrekeslawe,ii.17.':. the Orel ►feitM 176. 



alle mennes speche, ii. ilk mennes lok(< n. 



1 73. 



179. 



mennes goodes, ii. 332. 



princes hevedes, iii. 249. 



out of all other briddes of the -.ddespurveuumce 



' 



ighte, L 100. 



i. 111). 



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