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70. The feminines of this declension have also several
kinds of modification of vowels; some cannot be modified,
some have a doubled form of declension after this or the for-
mer specimen, as:
Present Declension : Former Declension :
[stock)
Sing. Nom. Ace. hnot(miJ) staung mOrk(w?ood) staung (stake,
Dat. hnot staung mOrku staling
Gen. hnotar steingr markar stangar
Plur. Nom. Ace. hnetr steingr markir stangir
Dat. hnotum staungum morkum staungum
Gen. hnota ; stanga ;
marka ; stanga.
The modification in staung, steingr is in reality the
same, as in mOrk, merkf (67) as it is merely a mechanical
consequence of ng, the 6’
changes into au and e into ei, we
also often find stOng, stangar, stengf (34).
The words which are declined in two ways like mork
and staung are chiefly the following:
strond (strand), rOnd (edge) spaung, taung, haunk.
A difference of signification is only accidental, as:
ond, Plur. endr the duck Ond, Plur. andir, a spirit,.
ghost (dan.: en And.)
Strond, rOnd, Ond receive in the Geti. Sing, always stran-
dar, randar, andar; so that Ond, spirit, differs only in
one case in the singular, and two cases in the Plural from
Ond, duck, Dat. Sing. Ondn, Nom. and Ace. Plur. andir.
71. Some accented monosyllables deviate by contraction,
if the. final syllable begins with a vowel, so that d absorbs
a, u but 6, u, absorbs only the u; as:
t3, ten, G. tar (for tar) Plur. tser, D. tarn (for taum)
klo, claw, G. kl6ar Plur. klrer, kl6m, k!6a
a, sheep (hunfur), Gen. Plur. <e r.
ku, cow, G. kyr Plur. kyr.
These forms ser and kyr we find in the modern language given
to the Sing. Nom. ;
so that both these words are in the Sing.
Nom. and Plur. Nom. and Ace. the same.
Others blend the r of the Plural with the final letter,
as brun, Plur. brynn (Egilss. S. 306 and in the Edda Hel-
gakv. Haddsk. 19) now we say bryn, or bryr; mfis forms
the Plur. in myss or mys; dyrr or dyr, door, is only found
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