Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series A - 01.10.2003, Blaðsíða 82

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4. INDIVIDUAL WORD FORMS
(Alphabetical order of base form of normal spelling, with (ð)/(d), (u)/(v>,
(o)/(ð)/(au>/(ai> regarded as interchangeable; abbreviations silently expan-
ded.)
‘alldrei’ 28.7, ‘alldri’ 31.48-48.127 (x 6), ‘alldrie’ 31.69, ‘alldregi’ 41.68.
The name Asdís is written once, 26.52, with intrusive (t> ‘Astdis’ by
analogy with the common noun ást.
‘braut’ 21.18, 34.91 (verse) (all), ‘abraut’ 42.96 (sole), ‘ibraut’ 27.82
(sole), ‘a braut’ 19.11 -45.102 (x 12), ‘i braut’ 42.89 (sole); ‘brott’ 42.63
(sole), ‘brot’ 48.18 (sole); ‘brutt’ 30.15 -47.39 (x 5), ‘ibrutt’ 35.97 (sole),
‘abrutt’ 36.4-42.73 (x 3), ‘ibrutt’ 38.75-76-48.129 (x 4), ‘bruttu’ 31.46
(sole); ‘burt’ 21.18-49.40 (x 7), ‘iburt’ 24.69 (sole), ‘a burt’ 32.64-49.35
(x 5), ‘i burt’ 45.55, 47.39 (all).
(acc.) ‘bæin/?’ 19.10 - 48.126 (x 5), ‘bæain/?’ 19.5 (sole, probably a
scribal error), (gen.) ‘bearins’ 32.98, ‘bearin«s’ 32.99, ‘biarins’ 46.13,
‘bæarins’ 48.129 (all), (dat.) ‘bænum’ 26.53 (sole), ‘bænum’ 31.60-45.97
(x 7).
‘dykr’ 35.56, ct dynkr of other MSS.
dyrr Levelling of y throughout the declension is evidenced in ‘dyra’
42.102, 112, ‘dyrum’ 25.14, 36.14, ‘dyrynum’ 26.82.
‘eða’ 27.68 (verse), elsewhere ‘eðr’ 20.5 - 49.30 (x 34).
‘einmn/?’ 42.64. C/‘þa/?nin//’ 29.27.
engi In all, (eng> forms occur 36 times, (ong> forms 19 times, (eing) not
at all. Nom. sing. masc. is always ‘engi’, as is nom. sing. fem. 25.62 -
35.80 (x 3); so is nom. and acc. pl. neuter 21.16 - 49.64 (x 6). Nom. and
acc. sing. is ‘ekki’ 19.10 - 50.30 (x ca 18). (Instances where ekki merely
negates verbs or adjectives are disregarded.) Acc. sing. masc. is ‘engan’
25.64 - 45.37 (x 7) or ‘ongan’ 31.27, 38.79 (all) or ‘onguan’ 41.128 (sole).
Acc. sing. fem. is ‘onga’ 19.32, 31.76 (all), acc. pl. masc. ‘onga’ 41.20,
‘ongua’ 49.14 (but ‘enga’ 45.55). Gen. sing. masc. is ‘engiss’ 42.62. Dat.
sing. masc. is ‘engum' 45.38 (sole) or ‘ongum’ 19.38 - 41.107 (x 4); so is
dat. pl. common ‘ongum’ 36.12 (sole, no ‘engum’ in this category). Dat.
sing. neuter is ‘engu’ 26.54 (sole) or ‘ongu’ 26.31 - 44.18 (x 6). Nom. pl.
masc. is ‘engir' 32.81 (sole) or ‘ongir' 34.112 - 38.77 (x 3). Nom. pl. fem.
is ‘ongar’ 21.7 - 45.112 (x 3). Gen. pl. common is ‘engra’ 35.81, 48.10
(all).
gera/g0ra Forms of the adjective/perfect participle (< *garwj-) retain the
w’, in the form of (f>/(fu>, ‘giorfa’ 24.89, ‘giorfir’ 42.105, ‘giorfir’ 42.39,
68, ‘giorfua’ 48.84 (verse), ‘giorfuar’ 41.10; cf the compound ‘giorualla’
29.10.