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. 1898 Excerpt: ...drink, shrink, sink, ring, sing, spring, all of which now take the stem of the A.S. Past. Sing, swam, began, ran, etc. Yet Byron has the following: --The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung. On the other ...
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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. 1898 Excerpt: ...drink, shrink, sink, ring, sing, spring, all of which now take the stem of the A.S. Past. Sing, swam, began, ran, etc. Yet Byron has the following: --The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung. On the other hand, the verbs spin, slink, stink, sting, win, fling, wring, cling, string all now form their Past tenses in spun, slunk, stunk, etc., which was once the stem of the Plural, and not that of the Singular. No. (4) remains as before, except that many of the Strong verbs have lost or half-lost the suffix-en that was once universal in the Past Participle. 137. Strong Verbs classified: reduplicated Past.--In Gothic (as in Latin, Greek, and other Aryan languages) Past tenses could be formed by reduplication of the root-syllable. In Gothic such verbs were a special class of the Strong conjugation; such as hait-an (to call), hai-hait; tek-an (to touch), tai-tdk.1 The Strong verbs in Teutonic thus naturally fall into two main divisions--(1) reduplicative verbs; (2) gradation verbs. The first class constituted one single conjugation; the second was distinguished into six sub-classes, the peculiarities of which need not be discussed in this book.2 In A.S. examples of reduplication are very few, and these few were far less distinctly preserved than in Gothic. The chief examples are: --HeTit (Gothic hai-hait), pt. t. of hdt-an, to call; which shows reduplication by the repetition of h. 1 Gothic uses ai with two values, viz. I and a?. In this ease it has the value & Hence the Gothic hai-, tai-stand for hi-, tl-; and exactly correspond to the Latin and Greek reduplicative prefixes "e-pendi," "fc-tupha." 2 The seven Strong conjugations have...
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