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65. The other irregular Masculines are:

Sing.          Nom.          skór (shoe)          dörr (spear)          mað’r (man)          fíng’r (finger)

                 Acc.          skó          dör          mann          fíng’r

                 Dat.          skó          dör          manni          fingri

                 Gen.          skós          dörs          manns          fing’rs

Plur.          Nom.          skúar          derir          menn          fing’r

                 Acc.          skúa          deri          menn          fing’r

                 Dat.          skóm          dörum          mönnum          fingrum

                 Gen.          skúa;          darra;         manna;          fingra.


The moderns contract skór in the Plural Nom. skór,
Acc. skó, Gen. skóa.

66. Irregular feminines are:

sál, the soul, Dat. sálu — Plural sálir, Gen. sálna,
also in the Gen. Sing. sálu, particularly found in compounds,
as: sáluhjálp.

grein forms the Plural in greinir and sometimes greinar,

ey, island, Dat. eyju or ey, Plur. eyjar — now eya is
generally used in Iceland after the 1^st Declension. Monosyllables
ending in á, which come in contact with an a or u following,
generally supplant them by á, as: brá, eyebrow, Gen. brár,
Plur. brár, Dat. brám, Gen. brá. Some derivatives with
these endings remain unaltered in the Sing. by the ancients
as: ásjá, care.


Third Declension.

67. This declension embraces all those words ending in
u or v, which are however frequently dropped or in some other
manner obscured. There are but few neuters, all of which end
in e (for ev), the Masc. end in the Sing. in -ar, Plur. -ir,
Fem. of the Sing. in -ar, or -r, form the Plural in -r:

                         N.                          M.                          F.

Sing.          Nom.          tre (tree)          völlur (field)          fjörður (bay)          rót (root)          mörk [(wood)

                 Acc.          tre          völl          fjörð          rót          mörk

                 Dat.          tre          velli          firði          rót          mörk

                 Gen.          tres          vallar          fjarðar          rótar          merk’r

Plur.          Nom.          tre          vellir          firðir          rœt’r          merk’r

                 Acc.          tre          völlu          fjörðu          rœt’r          merk’r

                 Dat.          trjám          völlum          fjörðum          rótum          mörkum

                 Gen.          trjá;          valla;          fjarða;          róta;          marka.

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