LANGUAGE OF GOWER's CONFESSIO AMAJJTIS 



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morwe (S. morgen, E. morn), i. 186, 205. 

 wowe (S. wag, E. wall), 

 wawes (S. waegas, E. waves), i. 141, 223, 312 

 gerarchie = hierarchy, iii. 145, is Old French 

 aucie, Ital. gerarchia. 



gier- 



c. Saxon d retained, where we have changed to 

 the aspirate dh (spelt tb). 



fader, i. 49, 60, 61 : iii. 260, 332 : father, ii. 174, is 



undoubtedly wrong, 

 moder, i. 104, 181, 191 : iii. 251, 368. 

 weder, i. 112, 140, 223 : iii. 351 : wether, iii. 295, 



is wrong. 



hider, i. 70 : ii. 61 : iii. 37. 



thider, i. 186, 209 : iii. 335, 336. 



whider. ii. 21, 117, 144. 



gader, ii. 293, 296 : togider, i. 324, 340 



On the other hand we find rother (S. rofter), 

 rudder. 



th dropped after t, in contracted forms : 



ate (at the) bord, iii. 299. 

 ate laste, i. 16 : ii. 345, 377. 



d. Metathesis of r and of s : 



brid, bird, i. 112, 133, 206, etc. : bird, i. 206. 



hunderd, hundred, ii. 92, 249, 381. 



thrid, third, i. 55. 



thritty, thirty, iii. 214. 



brenne, burn, i. 334 : brent, i. 109. 



kerse, cress, i. 299 f, 334 f. 



Adriane, Ariadne, ii. 307, 306, 308, 309 : iii 

 361. 



axe, ask, i. 334 : ii. 222 : iii. 308. 





e. m reinforced by b or p : 



thombe (S. }>uma), i. 175. 

 stempne (S. stemn), i. 312. 



n changed to m before P : 



wimpel (S. winpel), i. 326, 327. 



n not yet reinforced by d, as in English : 



kinled = kindled, . iii. 96. Cf. kin-d-red, and 

 kind, genus, which is apparently from Saxon 

 cynn, not cynd. 



s 





^rein forced by t: 



lost (for loss, S. los), i. 147 f; 238 f: ii. 186, 277. 

 We find loss, L 270. 



§09. See §97.* 



§ 100. Syntax for kind, quantity. 



b. Maner (=kind) followed not by a noun 



with of, but by a noun in apposition (like Germ. 

 art). 



a maner kinde, i. 88, 123. 

 what maner name, i. 206. 

 such a maner wise, i. 342. 

 what manner thing, ii. 142, etc. 



Things numbered put in the singular afte 



A. 



twenty winter age, ii. 266. 



of eigh[te]tene winter age, i. 102. 

 withinne seven winter age, i. 267 : ii. 266. 

 of nine hundred winter old(e), ii. 265. 

 of thre yer(e) age, ii. 22. 

 of twelv(e) yer(e) age, ii. 68, 



So after numerals preceded by a : 



of an hundred winter age, ii. 313 : of a ten yer 



age, ii. 17. 

 a thousand winter (tofore, after), i. 267 : ii. 266. 

 a thousand yer(e), ii. 9 : a ten mile, i. 209. 



ousan 



a thousand del(e), i. 295. 



The Saxon use of winter for year is to be 

 noticed, and also the of, supplying the place of the 

 Saxon genitive, in old o/nine hundred winter. 



d. Besides the foregoing, we find these modern 

 phrases : 



a thousand times, i. 330. 

 a fewe yeres, iii. 246. 

 seven yeres, ii. 9. 



§ 101. Genitive Case. 



b. Genitive sign not annexed to a compound 

 phrase : 



in Vestes temple the goddesse, ii. 157. 

 the kinges daughter of Cecile, I 104, 235. 



