#Accidence:# (1) =of A.= Strong declension of _masc._ and _neut._ nouns. In the _s. n._ sune b 231 represents #sunu#. _Gen._ -es, gastes b 165, bearnes 75: _d._ -e, bedde b 25, bure b 186, chearre b 238, hame b 122 (WS. #hām#), but the inflection is wanting in more than half the instances, clað b 23, hus b 148, &c. The _pl. n. a._ of masculines ends in -es, bemeres 36, brondes b 161, but scheos b 39, and schon b 38, a weak form: neuters, with the exception of word 65, have taken the masc. termination, felles b 24, b 31, gomenes b 218, þinges b 140, werkes 62, wordes 96, &c., or have joined the weak declension, beoden b 124, b 206, deoflen 58, 67, sygaldren 6: wa b 186, _pl. a._ is indeclinable: genitives are cunne b 30, englene 39, 76, þinge b 200; datives have mostly -es, breres b 32, streones 5 and 19 others, but beoden b 237, cneon b 150 (Mercian #cnēom#), ȝeten b 128, siðen b 19, b 101; mel b 177, þing b 129 are _acc._ in form. The _fem._ nouns of the strong declension have -e in the _s. n._, fulðe b 113, hure b 184, neode b 17, b 202, þuftene b 123; exceptions are heast 18, b 115 (#hǣs#), neod b 1, b 20, b 217, þuften b 119; the _acc._ also has -e. _Gen._ -e, helle 76, heorte 86: _dat._ -e, honde b 121, worlde b 234, sawle b 175, b 176, but uninflected half 40, 52, help b 75, hond 34, 95, luft 52, world 40, b 234. _Pl. n._ are teolunges 6, esken 85, weden b 146; _d._, esken 79, honden b 14, sunnen 21, talen b 106, wunden b 198, sawles b 176; _a._ ahte b 3, kemese b 83, leasunges b 140, secnesses b 36, glouen b 65, honden b 29, spechen b 139, sunnen 24, talen b 137. The extension of the weak declension at the expense of the strong is Southern. Nouns of the weak declension have -e in all cases of the singular; exception, leafdi _s. a._ b 235. _Pl. n._ are neddren, tadden 88, ancres b 188, leafdis b 46, b 79; _pl. d._ bemen 39, 76, cappen b 45, earen b 206, ehnen 48, b 63, heorden b 27, hosen b 39, nomen 25; _pl. a._ earen 54, b 136, blodbinde, huue b 69, teone b 187 (Anglian absence of n). The minor declensions are represented by vet _s. d._ b 42; wummon _s. n._ b 41, monnes _s. g._ b 58, wepmonnes b 56, mon _s. d._ b 220, chapmon b 12, wummon b 47, _s. a._ b 21, cunnesmon b 144, men _pl. n._ 99, monne _pl. g._ b 15, b 70, wummone b 194, heordemonne b 5, wepmen _pl. d._ b 97; boc _s. d._ b 223, (o)boke b 134; brech _pl. a._ b 41; kues _s. g._ b 5; niht _pl. n._ b 215; feader _s. n._ b 173; broðer _s. n._ b 75, breðer _s. d._ b 76; moder _s. n._ 21; dohter _s. n._ b 52, dehtren _pl. n._ b 15; suster _s. n._ b 4, sustren _pl. n._ b 1, b 232, sustres ?_pl. g._ b 208; child _s. n._ 22, godchild _s. a._ 20, childrene _pl. g._ b 96; feondes _s. g._ 92, feond _s. d._ 34, 63, b 159; hettren _pl. a._ b 70 (#hæteru#): hetter _s. d._ b 28 is a ME. formation.