Henry Sweet

An Icelandic Primer Henry Sweet

Book Excerpt(half adj.), f?lk (people); cp. f?lginn (hidden) with brostinn (burst ptc.). Consonants31. v is dropped before o and u: vaxa (to grow), prt. ?x, vinna (to win), unninn (won ptc.), svelta (to starve), soltinn (starved, hungry). Final r is often assimilated to a preceding cons.32. *-lr, *-nr, *-sr always become -ll, -nn, -ss after a long vowel or diphthong, as in st?ll (chair nom.), acc. st?l, steinn (stone nom.), acc. stein, v?ss (wise masc. nom. sg.), v?s fem. nom. sg., and in unacc. syllables, as in the masc. sg. nominatives mikill (great), fem. mikil, borinn (carried), fem. borin, ?miss (various) fem. ?mis.33. Words in which l, n,