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. 1806 Excerpt: ...of places are, almost universally, feminine nouns ending in e and forming the genitive case in an. When connected with other words, they generally appear as genitives, but sometimes combine with these words and form simple compounds. Thus the Welsh Glou,9 which in Roman geography takes the form of Glev-um, was ...
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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. 1806 Excerpt: ...of places are, almost universally, feminine nouns ending in e and forming the genitive case in an. When connected with other words, they generally appear as genitives, but sometimes combine with these words and form simple compounds. Thus the Welsh Glou,9 which in Roman geography takes the form of Glev-um, was converted by our ancestors, according to the genius of their language into Glew-e, and they called the town sometimes Glewan ceasler, that is, the chester or city of Glew-e, and sometimes Glewe-ccastcr, of which Gloucester is the corruption. Now, in Anglo-Saxon topography, the gtnitival form was used in the great majority of instances, but in modern usage the simple compound prevails almost to its entire exclusion. There are indeed a few names of places which still retain the genitive. Thus Cheltenham is certainly a corruption of Celtan ham, the hamlet of the Celt-e--Celt-' being no doubt the Anglo-Saxon name for the Chelt, the river, or rather brook, which flows through Cheltenham. Instances, however, of these genitival forms are now extremely rare. They have in almost all cases given way to the simple compounds. The reader will now have little hesitation in recognising a genitive case in the first element of the name Fethan lean. and, in considering such name as equivalent to The lea of Feth-e. If we suppose the place still to retain its ancient appellation, the name would according to analogy take the form of a simple compound, Fethe-ley. In certain of our dialects th in the middle of a word is often represented by d; thus, in the North of England, for father, mother, another. &c, they very commonly say fader, modder, anudder, &c. If the place we are in search of were situated in one of these districts, we might expe.ct to find its name mod...
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B/w Fold-out. Very Good+ J No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Professionally rebound in 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titling, 8vo unapg. Includes fold-out illustration/plan of the Abby at front of book. (minor light toning to edges).
