OTHER ADVERBIAL USES OF THE INFINITIVE. 
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B. THE INFINITIVE OF SPECIFICATION WITH VERBS. 
Of the infinitive of specification with verbs I find no clear example in Gothic, 
in Old Norse, or in Old Saxon. 
But in Old High German the following is probably an example: B. R. 45.9: 
saar so eoweht kipotan fona meririn ist, samaso cotchundlihho si kepotan 
tuuala kedoleet wesan ni-uuizzin zetuenne = Mox ut aliquid imperatum a 
maiore fuerit, hacsi diuinitus imperetur moram pati nesciant in faciendo. 
With the foregoing compare the following phrases, in which the infinitive is 
governed by a preposition other than zi: B. R. 41 (title) \fona tuenne ze keratte 
pruadero = de adhibendis ad consilium fratribus; ib. 121.5: in kankanne - in 
ambulando; Tatian 335.26: in brehchanne thes brotes — in jractione panis. 1 
Specification is denoted, too, by the participial (adverbial) form in -do (-to) 
translating the Latin gerund in the ablative, as in Hatt. II, 116 b. 28: fure mit 
fahindo pist du Satanas, mir nah kando wirdistu min scuolare = procedendo 
Satanas es, sequendo diseipulus. 2 
In all probability the infinitive of specification with verbs is due to Latin 
influence in the Germanic languages (Old High German and Anglo-Saxon). 
C. THE CONSECUTIVE INFINITIVE. 
(a) With Adjectives. 
In his section on “ Der Infinitivus Effectus s. Consequentiae,” l. c., pp. 
450-453, Dr. A. Kohler 2 mentions, among adjectives, only wairps, ‘ worthy/ as 
being followed by a consecutive infinitive. The infinitive after this adjective has 
been illustrated above, p. 256; it does not seem necessary to repeat the illus¬ 
trations here, the more so that the use does not to me seem consecutive. 
For the consecutive infinitive with an adjective preceded by saa in the 
Scandinavian languages, see section xi of this chapter, p. 257. 
In Old High German, clear examples of a consecutive infinitive after an 
adjective are difficult to find. Perhaps this is an example: Is. 7.25: endi joh 
dhazs ist nu unzwiflo so leohtsamo zi jirstandanne dhanne dhazs dhiz ist chi- 
quhedan. 3 Wirdig occurs with both the uninflected infinitive and the inflected, 
as we saw above, p. 257, but, despite Dr. A. Kohler’s statement as to wairps , 
the infinitive after wirdig does not seem to me consecutive in sense. 
Possibly we have a consecutive infinitive after an adjective preceded by ze in 
Middle High German, as in E. 7483: so waerz iu ze sagenne al ze lane; ib. 7572: 
daz waer ze sagenne ze lane , both from Monsterberg-Miinckenau, 1 l. c., p. 104. 
In Old Saxon I find a few examples of the inflected infinitive following an ad¬ 
jective preceded by an adverb (te): Hel. 5846: uuas im thiu uuanami te strang, 
te suithi te sehanne; ib. 143: it is unc all ti lat so te giuuinnanne . 4 
In the Germanic languages, as in Anglo-Saxon, the consecutive infinitive 
with adjectives seems merely an extension of the native infinitive of specifica¬ 
tion with adjectives. 
(b) With Verbs. 
Under the verbs followed by a consecutive infinitive in Gothic, Dr. A. 
Kohler, 2 1. c., pp. 450-453, names: taujan , 1 make/ ‘ cause; ’ gataujan, 1 make/ 
1 From Denecke, l. c., pp. 56, 57. 
3 From Denecke, l. c., p. 71. 
* From Erdmann, 1 O., 1. c., p. 231. 
1 From Pratje, l. c., p. 74. 
