This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... as plegere, player; sedere, sower; writere, writer; reafere, robber, reaver; fulluhtere, baptist. 312.-end, as demend, judge, deemster; wealdend, ruier, governor.; weriend, defender; helend, saviour; fterfyligend (also fterfolgere), successor. 313.-e, chiefly derivatives from verbs; as hyrde, herdsman, keeper, from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... as plegere, player; sedere, sower; writere, writer; reafere, robber, reaver; fulluhtere, baptist. 312.-end, as demend, judge, deemster; wealdend, ruier, governor.; weriend, defender; helend, saviour; fterfyligend (also fterfolgere), successor. 313.-e, chiefly derivatives from verbs; as hyrde, herdsman, keeper, from hyrdan, to guard, tend. Also many denoting inanimate objects; as cy le, cold; blodgyte, bloodshed; sige, victory; cwyde, saying, testament; bryne, burning; bryce, breach, rupture; cyre, choice; wlite, beauty, aspect. Derivatives in a from adjectives are feminine; as rihtwise, justice, righteousness. 314.-el, -ol, as forridel, precursor; forerynel, forerunner; bydel, herald, beadle; also some inanimate objects; as gyrdel, girdle; stypel, tower, steeple; sceamol, bench, footstool; sticel, sting. 315.-ing forms patronymics and answers to son of; as Brand wtes Beld ging, Beld g Wodening, Woden Freopolafing, Freopolaf Fripowulfing, Frioowulf Finning, Finn Godwnlflng, Godwulf Geating. With such may perhaps be classed cyning, king; oeling, prince. 316.-ling, forms diminutives; as lytling, child, little one; cn pling, little boy, from cnapa, boy. It seems sometimes to imply contempt; as h ftling, captive; repling, id. (i. e. one bound with a rope (rap); nydling, slave; feoroling, farthing. 317.-en forms a few masculines; as peoden, king, from peod, people; dryhten, lord, from dryht, people, subjects. The following denote an action, condition, quality, or the Uke: 318. Short substantives formed from verbs, by casting off the termination, and which, in some cases, seem to be the root of such verbs, are, as in G...
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