#r#: wrenches 5. #m#: com 60. #n#: in 99, 108. #f#: biforen 59, þer fore 150, þurn 225, under fon 57. #t#: blend 87, at 98. #d#: dred 50, dureward 59, atstond 158, feond 33, hard 165, hiderward 139, hundreð 97, 335 (OWScand. hundrað), lond 130, 256, heauet 59, onswereð 66, 281, somen 21, þusend 69, þusand 114, 119, þusanð 138, toward 81, 127, schendlac 124, glad 208, middel 174. #þ#: bliðeliche 248, limpeð 154, makes 39, makieð 255, swiðe 208. #s#: gastes 30. #c#: cumeð 69, þoncheð 201, long 58, swing 289, smecche 88, euh 58, hwucse 72, stinc 84, ecnesse 108. #ȝ#: ȝif 12, ȝarket 339, biȝoten 316, unwerched 251, agulteð 48, guldene 170. #h#: unwiht 151. #Accidence:# (1) =Of B.= Strong declension of _masc._ and _neut._ nouns. In the _s. n._ þinge 84 has added e. _Gen._ -es, cunnes 90, deaðes 62, contracted weis 162, 236: _d._ -e, dome 261, flesche 270, hame 25, with all nouns which have vowel ending in the _s. n._ as bale 93, chele 101, in others the inflection is more frequently wanting, deað 222, flesch 99, and generally in words of two syllables, as finger 325, godspel 4, heaued 59, lauerd 207; wa 86 is indeclinable. In the _s. a._ deale 105, inȝonge 32, 41 (but inȝong _n._ 146), mete 45, 47 have added e; bere 23 is #gebǣre#; sune 235 represents #sunu#. The _pl. n. a._ of masculines ends in -es, eauraskes 97, engles 239, deaðes 119, duntes 125: neuters, with the exception of þing 178, 297, schape 122 (#gesceapu#), have taken the masc. termination, þinges 89, werkes 64, wittes 16, wordes 251, wordes 64, or have joined the weak declension, deoflen 89, 91, studen 240, wepnen 159: genitive is smeche 88; datives have mostly -es, eawles 126, gleadschipes 307, but bisocnen 277, colen 104, deoflen 69, 139, wepnen 162, 184, and siðe 97, 138, 335 (without n). The _fem._ nouns of the strong declension have -e in the _s. n._, este 173, cnawlechunge 292, and many other derivatives in #-ung#, schadewe 148, but meað 37, 43 (once _masc._ in OE.). _Gen._ -e, helle 95, nease 96, but murðes 219, sawles 1: _dat._ -e, alesnesse 294, bisne 4, worlde 108, 136, 260, but ferd 151, half 160, 238, luft 186, sti 186 (#stīg#), world 108, 110, 147, 169 are not inflected: _acc._ -e, blisse 221, froure 35, but ferreden 269, fulst 225 (#fylst#), half 143. _Pl. n._ is hondon 51; _d._ blissen 267, pinen 90, 127, sunnen 70, wunden 240, dreorinesses 131; _a._ pinen 263, sahen 201, strengðen 164, sunnen 124, cunreadnes 261, estes 197, keis 34, runes 296. Nouns of the weak declension have -e in all cases of the singular, -en throughout the plural. The minor declensions are represented by uet _pl. d._ 260; mon _s. n._ 8, monnes _s. g._ 9, 15; boc _s. d._ 72, _s. a._ 70; buri _s. n._ 129 (from dat. #byrig#); niht _s. d._ 29; feader _s. g._ 237, _s. d._ 241, _s. a._ 116; moder _s. a._ 116; dehtren _pl. n._ 202, _pl. d._ 35, 195; suster _s. a._ 43, sustren _pl. n._ 202, _pl. d._ 207; feont _s. n._ 33, _s. d._ 158; wealdent _s. n._ 226.
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