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15 68. Like tre are declined kne; two words hie and spe do not occur in the Plural. It was only in the fifteenth Cen- tury that the Icelanders began to pronounce the e in these words like je (instead of a?) wherefore we meet in good editions of old works the reading tre, tres etc. Plur. Dat. and Gen. contracted for trjavum, trjava. The word f e, cattle, goods, money, is irregular in the Gen. Sing.; we find fjar instead of fjavar; but ve, sanctuary, temple (from which OSinsve, Odense) is declined, like land or skip after the 2nd Declension. 69. The Masculines we find sometimes only written with r (instead of Mr) , it not being observed that the termination in u was the reason for writing 6', as in the Dat. Plural. Therefore hvalf with a, because the ris only distinguished by an ' from the root. But kjolur with 6, because the ending contains u. The Accus. Plural of all these words has a double form , partly ending in t, agreeing with the Nom. Plural as: velli, firQi, partly ending in -w, agreeing with the Dative Plural, and this form is the old genuine one. Several kinds of modi- fications are to be noticed, although some words do not modify by reason of their nature. Siny. Nom. sonur (son) drattur (drawing) viSur (wood, forest) Ace. son dratt vi5 Dat. syni dratti vi5i Gen. sonar drattar viSar Plur. Nom. synir drsettir viQir Ace. (syni) (drfetti) (vidi) sonu drattu vi9u Dat. sonum drattum vi8um Gen. sona; dratta; vi5a. Irregular are these two: Sing. Nom. fotur (foot) vet'r (for vetr-ur) (winter) Ace. f6t vet'r (for vetr-u) Dat. foeti vetri Gen. ftitar vetrar Plur. Nom. Ace. fretf vet'r (for vetr-'r) Dat. f6tum vetrum Gert. fota; vetra.
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