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The Anglo-Saxon inflection of ^a) Substantives ending in a vowel, ^b) Substantives ending in a consonant, ^c) Adjectives with an indefinite ^d) Adjectives with a definite sense, ^e) Verbs Active ^f) and verbs auxiliar, may be seen in the comparison between the A. S. and the Icelandic. The corresponding inflections in Frisian are as follows:--
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? 95. In Frisian there is between the demonstrative pronoun used as an article, and the same word used as a demonstrative in the limited sense of the term, the following difference of declension:--
THE ARTICLE.
PRONOUN.
The Saxons draw no such a distinction. With them the article and demonstrative is declined as follows:--
Neither of these views satisfies the present writer.
In favour of this view is the fact that Norway was the mother-country, Iceland the colony, and that much of what is called Old Icelandic was composed in Norway.
This leads to the argument in its most general form--should a language be named from the colony, or from the mother-country? The Norwegians say from the mother-country. Let us consider this.
ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE--GERMANIC ELEMENTS.
? 103. The population and, to a certain extent, the language of England, have been formed of three elements, which in the most general way may be expressed as follows:--
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