To suppose _two_ adjectival forms, one inflected (_min_, _minre_, &c.), and one uninflected, or common to all genders and both numbers (_min_), is to suppose no more than is the case with the uninflected _þe_, as compared with the inflected _þæt_. § 407. Hence, the evidence required in order to make a single instance of _min_ or _þin_, the _necessary_ equivalents to _mei_ and _tui_, rather than to _meus_ and _tuus_, must consist in the quotation from the Anglo-Saxon of some text, wherein _min_ or _þin_ occurs with a feminine substantive, in an _oblique_ case, the pronoun _preceding_ the noun. When this has been done, it will be time enough to treat _mine_ and _thine_ as the equivalents to _mei_ and _tui_, rather than as those to _meus_ and _tuus_. * * * * * CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WEAK PRÆTERITE. § 408. The remote origin of the weak præterite in -d or -t, has been considered by Grimm. He maintains that it is the d in _d-d_, the reduplicate præterite of _do_. In all the Gothic languages the termination of the past tense is either -da, -ta, -de, -ði, -d, -t, or -ed, for the singular, and -don, -ton, -tûmês, or -ðum, for the plural; in other words, d, or an allied sound, appears once, if not oftener. In the _plural_ præterite of the _Mœso-Gothic_, however, we have something more, viz., the termination _-dêdum_; as _nas-idêdum_, _nas-idêduþ_, _nas-idedun_, from _nas-ja_; _sôk-idêdum_, _sôk-idêduþ_, _sôk-idêdun_, from _sôk-ja_; _salb-ôdedum_, _salb-ôdêduþ_, _salb-ôdêdun_, from _salbô_. Here there is a second d. The same takes place with the dual form _salb-ôdêduts_, and with the subjunctive forms, _salb-ôdêdjan_, _salb-ôdêduts_, _salb-ôdedi_, _salb-ôdêdeits_, _salb-ôdêdeima_, _salb-ôdedeiþ_, _salb-ôdedina_. The English phrase, _we did salve_, as compared with _salb-ôdedum_, is confirmatory of this. § 409. Some remarks of Dr. Trithen's on the Slavonic præterite, in the "Transactions of the Philological Society," induce me to prefer a different doctrine, and to identify the -d in words like _moved_, &c., with the -t of the passive participles of the Latin language; as found in mon-it-us, voc-at-us, rap-t-us, and probably in Greek forms like τυφ-θ-είς. 1. The Slavonic præterite is commonly said to possess genders: in other words, there is one form for speaking of a past action when done by a male, and another for speaking of a past action when done by a female. 2. These forms are identical with those of the participles, masculine or feminine, as the case may be. Indeed the præterite is a participle. If, instead of saying _ille amavit_, the Latins said _ille amatus_, whilst, instead of saying _illa amavit_, they said _illa amata_, they would exactly use the grammar of the Slavonians.