256 THE INFINITIVE IN THE OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES. 
Greek we have one of the analytic equivalents above mentioned instead of a 
simple infinitive. 
The lists of final infinitives given by Lund, l. c., pp. 367-368, by Nygaard, 
Z, c., p. 228, and by Falk and Torp, Z. c., p. 208, contain so few except after verbs 
of motion, of rest, and of giving, as to make it impossible for me to form there¬ 
from any definite opinion as to the final use of the infinitive in the Scandinavian 
languages after verbs other than those already treated. 
As to Old High German, Denecke, Z. c., p. 23, merely gives two or three 
examples of an uninflected infinitive of purpose with verbs other than those 
signifying motion or giving, and suggests that the uninflected infinitive is due 
to a slavish following of the Latin original; as in B. R. 87.4: kechriffe puah 
lesan = arripuerit codicem legere; while Erdmann, 1 Z. c., p. 212, cites a few verbs 
(ziahan, duan, geron, ratan, birinan, dragan, irougen) that in Otfrid are followed 
by the inflected infinitive of purpose. Of these I cite only one, that after duan, 
for the light it throws on a somewhat similar expression in Anglo-Saxon: Otfrid, 
I, 17.48: duet iz mir zi wizzanne. For the corresponding Anglo-Saxon expres¬ 
sions, see Chapter VIII, p. 118. 
In Old Saxon I find no clear case of a final infinitive with verbs other than 
t vesan and verbs of motion and of giving. 
To sum up the final infinitive in the Germanic languages, we may say that, 
despite the confessed meagerness of our statistics, the evidence, as far as it goes, 
reveals a situation surprisingly similar to that in Anglo-Saxon. As in the 
latter, so in the former it seems probable that (1) after verbs of motion the 
uninflected infinitive was a native idiom, but that the inflected infinitive was 
first suggested in Gothic by the Greek prepositional infinitive or by the Greek 
articular infinitive in the genitive, and was first suggested in Old High 
German by the Latin gerund and gerundive constructions; (2) after verbs of 
giving, the uninflected infinitives, drink and eat, are largely due to Greek 
and Latin influence, but that the inflected infinitive after verbs of giving is 
largely due to the influence of the Latin gerund and gerundive constructions, 
especially in High German. Concerning other groups of verbs than these two 
our statistics are too meager to warrant the drawing of conclusions. 
XI. THE INFINITIVE WITH ADJECTIVES. 
The infinitive with adjectives is common in the other Germanic languages. 
Professor Wilmanns, Z. c., p. 167, has an interesting comment on the voice 
of the infinitive with adjectives in High German, and holds that in the main 
the prepositional infinitive is active in sense, but that occasionally it is passive. 
In Gothic, only a few adjectives are followed by the infinitive. Usually we 
have (a) the simple infinitive, corresponding generally to the same in Greek, at 
times to an articular infinitive or to a finite verb; occasionally we have (6) the 
prepositional infinitive, corresponding to the articular infinitive in Greek: (a) L. 
14.31: siaiu mahteigs mip taihun pusundjom gamotjan pamma = d Swards ia-nv 
ev SeKa yiVacrtv wravryoax ; 1 Rom. 8.39: nih hauhipa nih diupipa nih gaskafts 
anpara mahteigs ist uns afskaidan af friapwai gups = ovrc . . . Swr/a-crai fjpas 
ycoptcrcu ; 1 I Cor. 16.4: jah pan jabai ist mis wairp galeipan = iav S’ rj a^iov rov 
1 From Kohler, 2 A., 1. c., p. 425. 
