A'n, like all other pronouns, follows indef. Decl. I., sometimes making accus. masc. anne; thus too nán Used definitely, áne, ána, áne, and standing after its noun, &c., it means alone. Twá (2) and preo are thus declined: none. Bá, begen, bá both, follows twá; prefixed to twá it forms bá-twá (bú-tú) (4) which is indeclinable. The numbers feower to twelf inclusive, when used absolutely, have a nom. in -e, &c, ; as, ealle seofone all seven; án of þám twelfum one of the twelve; án (') The t- is probably a remnant of the prefix hond- retained before the vowel. (2) S. twa. G. zwei, zwo. (3) Twain. G. zween. (*) Hence both, G. beide; comp. Italian ambe-due. pissa fífa one of these five. Those above eahta usually govern a genitive. Twentig and the others in -tig make abl. and dat. -tigum, gen. -tigra. Hund prefixed to the tens after sixtig (answering to -Kovт-α, L. -gint-a) is sometimes dropt when hund hundred goes before; as, scipa án hund and eahtatig, of ships one hundred and eighty. Hund (hundred) follows II. 1 ; hundred and þúsend, III. 1. Units are placed before tens, as, six and fíftig, six and fifty. In numbers above a hundred, the smaller stands last, and the noun is repeated; as, Hundteontig wintra and seofon and feowertig wintra, a hundred winters and seven and forty winters.(5) Wintre affixed to numbers forms adjectives denoting age; as, fram twi-wintrum cilde, from the child of two years, VII.-Ordinal Numbers. þæt forme, se forma, seó forme þæt, se, seó óđer first second þæt pry-dde, se pry-dda, seó þry-dde (6) thir-d feor-pe, -pa, -pe fíf-te, -ta, -te six-te, seofo-pe, -pa, -þe eahtope nigope (5) The northern nations reckoned time by winters. four-th fifth sixth eighth Units combined with ordinal tens stand first when cardinals, last when ordinals; as, án and pryttigođe one and thirtieth; þý twentigodan dæge and þý feordan dæge Septembris, on the twenty and fourth day of September. Healf half placed after an ordinal number (like G. halb) reduces it by half; as, óder-healf (lit. secondhalf) one and a half, (G. andert-halb); þridde-healf (lit. third-half) two and a half (G. dritte-halb).(1) A'n, twá, preo, form an-e once, twi-wa (tu-wa) twice, pry-wa thrice; with the other cardinals, and all the ordinals, síd a time is used in the ablative for the same purpose; as, feower, fíf, &c. sídum or sídon four, five, &c. times; (þý) forman, óðre, þryddan, &c. side the first, second, third, &c. time. -εειν, CHAPTER V. I.-Verbs. Conjugation. THERE are two Orders of Verbs, as of Nouns; viz. the Simple and the Complex; (2) the former containing pure or open Verbs answering to the Greek in -aɛɩv, and -ov, and to the Latin in -are, -ēre, and -ire; the latter impure or close Verbs, answering to the Greek regulars, and to the Latin in -ĕre, &c.(3) The Simple Order forms its imperfect by adding -ode (-ede), -de, or -te to the root; the participle past by adding -od (-ed), -d, or -t: in the Complex the imperfect becomes monosyllabic and changes its vowel; the participle past ends in -en.(4) The former is divided into three Classes forming one Conjugation; the latter into two Conjugations of three Classes each. (1) Comp. μov-rpiros, L. sesqui-alter, -tertius. (2) Simple Verbs are by Grimm termed Weak, Complex Strong. (3) See Rask's Grammar, pp. 67–70. (4) E. and G. verbs in general follow the A.S., though complex forms have in each not seldom become simple. E |