#r# is lost medially in metheschele 366; #rr# is simplified in werest 221. #n# is lost medially in ore 383, raketeie 283, druken 257, seuenihte 142; #nn# is simplified in done 37, isiene 392. #bb# is simplified in haben 53, 100, habeð 179, 194, libeð 208. #f# between vowels is _u_, buuen 87, eueten 277, deueles 179, but deflen 97, defles 258. #t# is dropped in a te 92, foremes 197, nah 129; #ts# is represented by _c_ in milce 8, by _ch_ in milche 219. #d# is lost in godcunnesse 393, exchanged with _ð_ in idemð 173, and doubled in hardde 171. For #þ#, _d_ is written in habbed 141, 177, bed 104, 381; _th_ in lothe 61, metheschele 366, sathanas 287: #þþ# is simplified in seðen 9, 117, 209. #sc# [š] is _sc_ in scat 367; _s_ in bisunien 154, safte 84, sal 21, same 168, sameð 167, samie 165, senche 335, silde 224 (5), sineð 279, solde 37, sop 84, srud 367, sulle 22, syrreue 50; _ss_ in fisses 83. #gītsere# is ȝietceres 271. #č# is expressed by _ch_, muchel 12 (23), ich 1 (25), but mukel 209, ic 12, 229: #čč# is also _ch_, feche 226, reche 135, 225, steche 191, ?wichen, 103: #cg# is _gg_, seggen 92, _g_, abugeð 197 (but abuið 146), ligeð 283: #cw# is always _qu_, aquerne 366, quike 78. #ġ# is regularly _ȝ_, forȝieuenesse 302, forȝiete 34, but _j_ in jung 4. A _y_ sound has developed initially in ȝierles 324; comp. ȝeie 13/43. #g# before #ð# is _c_ in strencðe 170, _h_ in murihðe 396. For almihtin 337 see 79/17 note. #hw# initial is preserved, but #hr# is _r_, raðer 133, rewen 358. #Accidence:# (1) =of L.= Strong declension of _masc._ and _neut._ nouns. In the _s. n._ were 31 has added e; sune 186 represents #sunu#. _Gen._ -es, swinkes 64; golde 70 is probably miswritten for goldes: _d._ -e, gode 73, middenerde 193, fure 43, werke 27; exceptions are festen 145, god 49, hunger 145 (#hungre#), king 63 (r. w. erninge), middenerd 198, unriht 209, mostly before vowels, fur 150, werch 116, at mid pause of the verse: misse 234, _acc._ has added e. The _pl. n. a._ of masculines ends in -es, engles 94, weȝes 72, bendes 188, but wintre 208 (#wintru#): neuters are -ȝer 140, iswinc 36, lif 246, þing 84, word 9, 158, doule 97 (#dēoflu#), gate 180 (#gatu#), werkes 63, 72, 111 with masc. termination; _g._ manke 70; _d._ doulen 269, wrenchen 251, bende 134, wintre 1, 4, write 101. Of the _fem._ nouns, blisse 233, endinge 120, mihte 211, milce 72, murþe 154, rihtwisnesse 72, sorȝe 140, 194, sunne 201, tilþe 57, unhelðe 197, witnesse 113, 116, wombe 145 have added e in the _s. nom._, echte 42, 55, ehte 259, node 261 in the _acc._ The other cases _sing._ and _pl._ end in e, helle 216, _s. g._, are 179, _s. d._, 53, _s. a._, but tening 253; _pl. n._ are blisse 153, glede 218, mihte 77, saule 136, uniselðe 198, wihte 79; _g._ misdede 130, souenihte 140, _a._ dede 10, hese 91, saule 245, scefte 84, sorȝe 166, stunde 147, sunne 238, tide 137: worldes 222 _s. g._ is a masc. form, deden 89 _pl. a._ a weak form. In the weak declension the termination of all cases in