 Anglo-Saxon, number, case, and person are distinguished by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions did the work of the lost inflections. "...  Origin of the Scots and the Scottish language - Pagina 107door James Paterson - 1858Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 348 pagina’s
...Guest, Esq. The Anglo-Saxon, like the Greek and Latin, often distinguishes number, case and person, by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old-English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Thus the Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pagina’s
...afterward. SPECIMENS OF OLD ENGLISH. § 80. In the Anglo-Saxon, number, case, and person are distinguished t followed by some supplemental remark or further illus Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1844 - 340 pagina’s
...Guest, Esq. The Anglo-Saxon, like the Greek and Latin, often distinguishes number, case and person, by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old-English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Thus the Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pagina’s
...afterward. SPECIMENS OF OLD ENGLISH. § 80. In the Anglo-Saxon, number, case, and person are distinguished by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pagina’s
...afterward. SPECIMEN OF OLD ENGLISH. § 46. In the Anglo-Saxon, number, case, and person are distinguished by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 528 pagina’s
...often distinguished the cases of its noun, aud the conjugations, numbers, and persons of its verb, by a change in the vowel of the final syllable; in...English, all these vowels were confounded, and in our modem dialect they have, for the most part, been lost. Thus the Anglo-Saxon ath has at/tas in the nominative... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pagina’s
...afterward. SPECIMENS OF OLD ENGLISH. § 80. In the Anglo-Saxon, number, case, and person are distinguished by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 654 pagina’s
...often distinguished the cases of its noun, and the conjugations, numbers, and persons of its verb, by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in...modern dialect they have, for the most part, been lost. Thus the AngloSaxon ath has athat in the nominative and accusative plural, and athes in the genitive... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pagina’s
...4 SPECIMENS OP OLD ENGLISH. § 80. Ill the Anglo-Saxon, number, case, ami person arc distinguished by a change in the vowel of the final syllable ; in the Old English these vowels are all confounded ; and in our modern English they are lost. Prepositions... | |
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