_Present Tense, Indicative Mood._ _Moeso-Gothic._ _1st person._ _2nd person._ _3rd person._ _Singular._ S[^o]kja. S[^o]keis. S[^o]keith--_seek._ _Plural._ S[^o]kjam. S[^o]keith. S[^o]kjand. {295} _Old High German._ _Singular._ Prennu. Prenn[^i]s. Prennit--_burn._ _Plural._ Prennames. Prennat. Prennant. _Icelandic._ _Singular._ Kalla. Kallar. Kallar--_call._ _Plural._ Koellum. Kallith. Kalla. _Old Saxon._ _Singular._ S[^o]kju. S[^o]k[^i]s. S[^o]k[^i]d--_seek._ _Plural._ S[^o]kjad. S[^o]kjad. S[^o]kjad. _Anglo-Saxon._ _Singular._ Lufige. Lufast. Lufadh. _Plural._ Lufiadh. Lufiadh. Lufiadh. _Old English._ _Singular._ Love. Lovest. Loveth. _Plural._ Loven. Loven. Loven. _Modern English._ _Singular._ Love. Lovest. Loveth (or Loves). _Plural._ Love. Love. Love. Herein remark; 1. the Anglo-Saxon addition of _t_ in the second person singular; 2. the identity in form of the three persons of the plural number; 3. the change of _-adh_ into _-en_ in the Old English plural; 4. the total absence of plural forms in the Modern English; 5. the change of the _th_ into _s_, in _loveth_ and _loves_. These are points bearing especially upon the history of the English persons. The following points indicate a more general question. 1. The full form _prennames_ in the newer Old High German, as compared with _s['o]kjam_ in the _old_ Moeso-Gothic. 2. The appearance of the _r_ in Icelandic. 3. The difference between the Old Saxon and the Anglo-Saxon in the second person singular; the final _t_ being absent in Old Saxon. 4. The respective powers of M in the first, of S in the second, and of T (or its allied sounds) in the third persons singular; {296} of MES in the first, of T (or its allied sounds) in the second, and of ND in the third persons plural. In this we have a regular expression of the persons by means of regular signs; and this the history of the personal terminations verifies. s. 349. _First person singular._--That the original sign of this person was M we learn from the following forms: _dad[^a]mi_, Sanskrit; _dadh[^a]mi_, Zend; _[Greek: didomi]_, Greek; _dumi_, Lithuanic; _damy_, Slavonic=_I give_. The Latin language preserves it in _sum_ and _inquam_, and in the first persons of tenses, like _legam_, _legebam_, _legerem_, _legissem_. The form _im_=_I am_ occurs in Moeso-Gothic; and the words _stom_=_I stand_, _lirnem_=_I shall learn_, in Old High German. The word _am_ is a fragmentary specimen of it in our own language. _Plural._--The original sign MES. _Dadmas_, Sanskrit; _[Greek: didomes]_, afterwards _[Greek: didomen]_, Greek; _damus_, Latin=_we give_. The current form in Old High German.