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. 1838 Excerpt: ... p e i n k j u m. 170. The inflected forms of the second class admit no vowel-change, because the first person (by reason of the characteristic-t) has already undergone a vowel-change, which is continued through the other forms, without regard to any subsequent change of termination. With certain words however this is ...
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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. 1838 Excerpt: ... p e i n k j u m. 170. The inflected forms of the second class admit no vowel-change, because the first person (by reason of the characteristic-t) has already undergone a vowel-change, which is continued through the other forms, without regard to any subsequent change of termination. With certain words however this is not the case; and it seems the proper characteristic of these should be e (not i), but as they have other irregular!ties also, little would be gained by treating them as a 171. To these irregulars may be referred the auxiliary hefi, have, which is inflecjed as follows; present, as 1 vaki, nee, veld, 2 vakir, nser, veldr, 3 vakir, naer, veldr. 1 vokum, nam for naum, voldum, 2 vakit, nait, valdit, 3 vaka, na for naa, valda. The last verb veld is extremely irregular, making the past olli (Jomsvs. 143), conditional ylli, supine valdit (Joms. 145), modern form oll at., infinitive valda, modern form o ll a. The supine of lifi islifat. In other respects this verb corresponds to the others whose final consonant isf, though l i f i n n is found in the poets, 13. The third class is monosyllabic in the present singular, but its original characteristic ending (as in other instances, where this ending has been dropped) was probably u. It inserts j before all the final syllables in the present which begin with a or u, as t e l j u m; In the past, like the second class, it makes-ta, -da, or-da, but I and n are more regularly followed by-da; the passive participle has sometimes the contracted form, and sometimes the mixed (124). The past and passive participle have properly but two vowel-changes, viz. e to q, and y to u, as appears by the following examples. With the ancients v i l has generally v i ll (for vilr) in the second and third persons, sometimes v i ..
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