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12. (i) Three-syllable forms of nouns and adjectives with -u(m) as
the inflexional ending show both (a) and <u> (more rarely <o> or <q»
as the medial vowel. <a> is particularly common in ‘þionastu’ and
‘heilagu(m)’, but is found elsewhere in e.g. ‘uitrazstu’ 20/8, 16, ‘meist-
arum’ 28/13, ‘baulvaðu’, ‘bolfuaðu’ 12/8, 37/12, ‘skipaðu’ 21/1,
‘uitranum’ 35/2, ‘áheyrandum’ Þs. 180/10. Cf. oblique cases of
þionasta in <ost>, <qst> 20/1, 42/13, 46/6, Messusk. 109/25,
‘heiloghum’ 31/17, ‘maanvðum’ 28/11, ‘naanozstu’ Þs. 179/8.
(ii) In contrast, trisyllabic pret. pl. forms normally have <u> or <o> as
the medial vowel; an isolated exception is ‘þionaðu’ 18/9.
(iii) The medial vowel is <o> in ‘heimolliga’ 8/14, ‘aalog(h)a’ Þs.
190/28, 200/9. It is always (u> in forms of glmusa.
13. (i) Normal forms are ‘eyrendi’, ‘tiðindi’ (‘tiðendi’ twice, 23/14,
36/2), ‘(ó)hægindi’.
(ii) There is occasional variation between -ari and -eri endings; thus
‘skapari’, ‘keisari’ and usually ‘meistar(-)’ but ‘Meistcre’ 25/52,
‘alltared’ 29/9 but ‘allteri(s)’ Messusk. 109/24, 33. The words misseri
and musteri are only with -er-.
(iii) Suffix -lig(-) appears only with <i>.
(iv) The suffix is always -ig- in almáttigr, kunnigr. Forms in -ug-,
stQÖuglig-, sauruglig-, illkynduglig-, are straightforward formations
from corresponding adjs., but -g- is not introduced in vQldu(g)lig- and
skQru(g)lig-. Analogical -g- does occur, however, in ‘reiðugliga’
13/14, a solitary instance in Gþ.
14. (i) In open final syllables (and at the end of a compounded first ele-
ment, usually spaced from what follows) the ratio of <i> to <e> is about 5 :
2. Use of final <e> decreases as the text progresses, though the dat. pron. f.
is ‘henne', ‘hc/;ne’ throughout (exceptionally ‘hívmi’ 45/26).
(ii) In open final positions <u>/<v> is standard. When words abbrevi-
ated with superscript <°> e.g. ‘m°’, ‘f°’, ‘w°’ are written out, they nor-
mally have final <u>.
(iii) Svarabhakti u before final r is written <u> in ‘gefur’ 13/19,
‘kemur’ 22/47. Elsewhere it is indicated by the abbreviation mark for
ur: ‘kemur' 16/29, 32/4, ‘Islefur’ 19/1, ‘-ligwr’ 24/47, 28/47, ‘fotur’
47/2, ‘Olafur’ Misc. 59rbl7; and by the back spelling ‘yðr’ for yður,
pl. n. and sg. f., 25/10, Þs. 207/8.