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Definite Form.
Sing. Norn, spaka spaki spaka
Gen. Dat. Ace. spaka spaka spOku
Plur. Nom. Ace. spOku
Dat. spttku or spttkum
Gen. spokii.
87. Although the adjective has but one declension there
are several exceptions to be observed which occur through the
joining of the final syllable with the root.
II
1
the last radical letter be 8 preceded by a vowel or a
diphthong, it absorbs in the n. g. with t to tt as:
glatt, glaSr, gli)5 glossy, bright;
breitt, brei8f, brei8 broad;
in one case, the accent is lost, namely in
gott, g68r, go8 (good).
If a consonant precedes, the 8 is
altogether dropped:
hart, har8r, hor8 (hard) sagt, sag8r, sOg8 (said)
haft, hafSr, h5f8 (clever)
The same in dissyllabic words, if a vowel precedes:
kallat, kalla8r, kullu8;
lagit, Iagi8r, Iagi8 (for kalla8t, Iagi8t).
Also d after a consonant as:
vant, vandf, vo’nd (difficult) selt, seldf, seld;
geymt, geymdf, geymd.
gladt, gladdf , gliidd (glad) breidt, breiddi,
breidd (broad) moedt, mu’ddf, moedd (tired).
If the word ends in tt, no further t is added in the n. g. but
the form becomes similar to the feminine, as:
sett, settf, sett moett, moettf, moett
In weaker consonants the gender may part as: latt, lattf,
1 o 1 1 , nor can it be distinguished in’ the n. g. from a similar
word with single t, as:
latt, latf, lot (lazy) hvatt, hvattr, hvOtt and
hvatt, hvatf, hvOt (hasty).
88. The adjectives, the root of which end in an accented
vowel, deviate in so far that they double the -t in the n. g.,
the -r in the f.
g. in the terminations -ri and -rar, the -ra
in the Gen. Plur., and often the -s in n. and m. g. Gen. Sing, as
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