The Ormulum, being more Northern, contains a _larger_ number of words that must be referred to one of the Scandinavian idioms:[48]—_afell_ (strength), _afledd_ (begotten), _beȝȝsc_ (bitter), *_blunnt_ (blunt, dull), _bracc_ (noise), *_braþ_ (angry), *_braþþe_ (anger), *_brodd_ (shoot), _brodden_ (to sprout), _broþþfall_ (fit), *_bun_ (ready, _bound_), *_clake_ (accusation), *_croc_ (device), *_derf_ (bold), *_dill_ (sluggish), *_eggenn_ (to urge, egg on), *_egginng_ (urging), *_ettle_, *_flittenn_ (to remove, flit), *_flitting_ (change, removal), *_forrgart_ (opposed, condemned), *_forrgloppned_ (disturbed with fear, astonishment), *_gate_ (way), _gowesst_ (watchest), *_haȝherr_ (dexterous), _haȝherleȝȝc_ (skill), *_haȝherrlike_ (fitly), _hof_ (moderation), _hofelæs_ (immoderately), *_ille_ (bad), *_immess_ (variously), *_kinndlenn_ (to kindle), *_lasst_ (crime, fault), _leȝhe_ (hire, pay), *_leȝȝtenn_ (O.E. _layte_, inquire, seek), _o-loft_ (aloft), *_loȝhe_ (fire), *_mune_ (must, will), _naþe_ (grace), _nowwt_ (cattle, O.N. _naut_; the Southern form is _neet_, _nete_, A.S. _neát_), *_ploh_ (plough), *_radd_ (afraid), *_ros_ (praise), *_rosen_ (to boast), *_rosinng_ (boast), _rowwst_ (voice), *_scaldess_ (poets, O.E. _scald_, a great talker, boaster, E. _scold_), *_sit_ (pain), *_sket_ (quickly), *_skirpeþþ_ (rejecteth), *_sloþ_ (track, path), _smikerr_ (beautiful, Eng. _smug_), _sowwþess_ (sheep), _stoffnedd_ (generated, O.E. _stoven_, trunk, stem), *_summ_ (as), *_till_ (to), *_tór_ (hard, difficult), *_trigg_ (true), _uppbrixle_ (object of reproach, O.E. _brixle_, reproach), _usell_ (wretched), *_wand_ (rod), *_wandraþ_, O.E. _wandreth_ (trouble), *_werre_ (worse). As most, if not all, of the words in the foregoing list are not found in works written in the Southern dialect,—so far as we at present know them—we may reasonably suppose that they indicate fairly the Danish element in the English literature of the 12th and 13th centuries. In the Northumbrian, and the West, and East-Midland productions of a century later this element prevails to a much larger extent, and Herbert Coleridge's list of such words may be largely increased (Phil. Soc. Trans., 1859, p. 26-30). GRAMMATICAL DETAILS. I. NOUNS. 1. _Number._—The plural is generally formed by adding _-es_ to the singular. Some few nouns make the plural in _-en_, as _feren_[49] (companions), _fon_ (foes), _goren_ (spears), _loten_ (features), _sunen_ (sons), _teten_ (teats), _tren_ (trees), _weden_ (garments), _wunen_ (laws). The plurals of _brother_ and _child_ are _brethere_ and _childere_. _Der_ (deer), _erf_, _orf_ (cattle), _got_ (goat), _neat_ (oxen), _sep_ (sheep), _scrud_ (garbs), _wrim_ (reptiles), of the neuter gender, are uninflected in the plural. _Winter_, _ger_ (year), and _nigt_ (night), are plural as in Anglo-Saxon. 2. _Gender._—As a general rule the names of inanimate things are of the neuter gender. The names of towns, however, are considered as masculine.