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68. Like tre are declined kne; two words hie and spe
do not occur in the Plural. It was only in the fifteenth Cen-
tury that the Icelanders began to pronounce the e in these
words like je (instead of a?) wherefore we meet in good editions
of old works the reading tre, tres etc. Plur. Dat. and Gen.
contracted for trjavum, trjava.
The word f e, cattle, goods, money, is irregular in the Gen.
Sing.; we find fjar instead of fjavar; but ve, sanctuary,
temple (from which OSinsve, Odense) is declined, like land
or skip after the 2nd Declension.
69. The Masculines we find sometimes only written with
r (instead of Mr) ,
it not being observed that the termination
in u was the reason for writing 6’, as in the Dat. Plural.
Therefore hvalf with a, because the ris only distinguished
by an
’
from the root.
But kjolur with 6, because the ending contains u. The
Accus. Plural of all these words has a double form , partly
ending in t, agreeing with the Nom. Plural as: velli, firQi,
partly ending in -w, agreeing with the Dative Plural, and
this form is the old genuine one. Several kinds of modi-
fications are to be noticed, although some words do not modify
by reason of their nature.
Siny. Nom. sonur (son) drattur (drawing) viSur (wood, forest)
Ace. son dratt vi5
Dat. syni dratti vi5i
Gen. sonar drattar viSar
Plur. Nom. synir drsettir viQir
Ace. (syni) (drfetti) (vidi)
sonu drattu vi9u
Dat. sonum drattum vi8um
Gen. sona; dratta; vi5a.
Irregular are these two:
Sing. Nom. fotur (foot) vet’r (for vetr-ur) (winter)
Ace. f6t vet’r (for vetr-u)
Dat. foeti vetri
Gen. ftitar vetrar
Plur. Nom. Ace. fretf vet’r (for vetr-’r)
Dat. f6tum vetrum
Gert. fota; vetra.
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