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Some notes on the leading grammatical characteristics of the principal early English dialects - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...Kentish speech. But we have in the Southern dialect another form which deserves a peculiar attention. It is the curious inflection hise (hys, is), which certainly is 'of high antiquity although not, as far as I know, found in the Old South. English book-language. It may have existed in the Southern sproken idioms for many hundred years before it made its appearance in literature, and may therefore possibly be connected with the Moeso-Gothic si, she, gen. izos, dat. izai, as Mr. Morris suggests (see „The Reader" 1864, May 28, p. 689). In Kentish writers of the 14th century this pronoun is rather common. Besides Robert of Gloucester occasionally makes use of the word. I now give examples of the old fem. accusative forms. be nijtingale hi (sc. bo hule) i-sej, and hi bi-hold and over-sej, And bujte wel wl of bare hule, For me hi halt lodlich and fule. O. a. N. 29, 32. An lerdest h i (sc. the lefti) to don shome an un-rijt of hire licome. Ib. 1051. Senne hys swete and lyketh, wanne a man hi deth and also soure hy bryketh wane he venjaunce y-seth. Shoreh. p. 102. To healde hy (sc. the earthe) op. Ib p. 136.--Eneam he heo (sc. be dojter) biheyte. Lay I. p. 7. he heo wolde habben to heijen are quene. Ib. I. p. 8. The nijtingale heo bi-thohte. O. a. N. 937.--he hoe (sc. be boc) jef bare as&elen JSlienor. Lay I p. Tha; he by hyre ne ligge noujt, other halt hys ine hys house. Shoreham p. 77. Ho halt ys (sc. the erthe) op? Ib p. 136. Josephes lhetdy ho hy vand alone him, hi wold do him zeneji mid hire, ac he him ledde avse wys and hise vorlet. Dan. M. p. 206. Thervore the dyevel playth ofte mid the zenejere ase deth the cat mid the mouse, thanne he hi s heth ynome, and huanne he heth mid hire longe yplayed thanne he his eth. Ib. p. 179. he acsede ate guo...
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