A manual of Anglo-Saxon for beginners; comprising a grammar, reader, and glossary, with explanatory notes

Samuel Moore Shute

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LEYPOLDT & HOLT,
Broome New York.451 St,A MANUAL
OF
ANGLO-SAXON
FOE BEGINNEKS;
COMPRISING
A ANDGRAMMAR, READER, GLOSSARY,
EXPLANATORY
BY
SAMUEL M. SHUTE,
PROFESSOR IN COLUMBIAN D. O.COLLEGE, WASHINGTON,
THIRD EDITION,
Corrections and aWith Supplementary Glossary.
YORK :NEW
LEYPOLDT & HOLT.
1869.to Act of in theEntered, according Congress, year 1867, by
&LEYPOLDT HOLT,
of States for theIn the Clerk's of the District Court the United
Office
ofNew York.
'. Southern DistrictPREFACE.
THE of the in this iacountry,study Anglo-Saxon language
limited to a small number of students. Instruction in it isvery
in six or of our and but little timegiven, probably, eight colleges,
thisis allotted to it. The attention bestowedslight upon sturdy
inancestor of our mother be accountedtongue, may for, part, by
the fact that the of withliterature the Anglo-Saxons, compared
the literature of Greece or or that of modern orRome, Germany
is It for our admiration no historiesFrance, very meagre. presents
like thoselike those of or no forensicThucydides Livy ; productions
of that Homer and theDemosthenes or Cicero no like of
; poetry
Dramatists and no discussions like those
; profound metaphysical
of Aristotle or Plato. While its is
literary value, therefore, little,
with that of the literature of the abovecompared mentioned,people
its has not beenphilological importance adequately appreciated.
A with Saxoneducated American should be as familiar theliberally
as he is with those from the Greek and Latin. Itetymologies
to be of one who has aought expected passed through regular
course of that he will be as able to know that thecollegiate study,
verb to do is derived from the Saxon verb as that theEnglish ddn,
verb move is from the Latin verb Andmoveo.derived, remotely,
if the want of a of the latter derivation is an evidenceknowledge
of deficient should not a want of ofscholarship, why knowledge
the former derivation be an evidence of theequally convincing
same ? It is a lamentable that the vast ofdeficiency fact, majority
those who are well and who are evenreally educated, extensively
familiar with the derivation of words in ourordinary language
from the Greek and have no of theLatin, competent knowledge
or mode of derivation of one in a hundred of theorigin imposing
hosts of words which come to us from thedirectly Anglo-Saxon
and it was intongue ; view of this that one of the most en-fact,
thusiastic and laborious ofAmerican scholars while recom-wrote,
"the moremending ofthe that The ofgeneral study language, study
^50395PBEFACE.IV
the older literature ofand of proper, promisesEnglishAnglo-Saxon
harvest of information with to thethe most abundant respect ety-
and an in-fundamental of ourof the present speech,partmology
further enrichment of ourmine of material for theexhaustible
native tongue."*
in the of the of theAnother difficulty, however, way study
this has been the want of suitable text-in country,Anglo-Saxon
has one volume of convenientbooks. The precise deficiency been,
and aze a Selections forGrammar, Reading, Glossary,containing
books be avoided. Toso that the of a number of mightexpense
the author of the volume hasmeet this special deficiency, present
and he would the that it has been done withlabored, indulge hope
success.gome
admirableThe Grammatical is based the ex-compendium upon
Laut-und derof Moritz in his Kurtze FlexionslehreHeyne,position
which Prof.Paderborn, 1862,Altgermanischen Sprachstcimme,
has so hi his able His-Hadley satisfactorily reproduced very Brief
tfte hi the Introduction to the last edi-English Language,tory of
tion of Webster's Dictionary.
The Selections for have been culled from the bestReading
writers of the in its and have beenpurest estate, theyAnglo-Saxon
for their inherent as wellchosen, mainly, attractiveness, being
to interest in the of theadapted beginners study language.
The Rules of have for the most taken fromSyntax been, part,
Grammar.Klipstein's
willThe be found for the matterGlossary complete reading
volume.contained in this
use has made of the works ofMarsh and asFree been Wright,
as well as in the ofthe Introduction.of others, preparation
these withoutThe author cannot close toremarks, expressing
and of Yale his acknowl-Profs. Hadley Whitney College, grateful
for valuable which he has received from themedgment suggestions
the of this work.during preparation
S. M. S.
COLUMBIAN COLLEGE,
1867.April,
* Lectures on the P.English G. Marsh.Language byCONTENTS.
PAGK
iii
xiINTRODUCTION
PART I.
ORTHOGRAPHY
CHAPTER I.
THE &C.ALPHABET,
1. The 2. Vowels and Pronunciation. 3.Alphabet.
Consonants and 5.Pronunciation. 4. Circumflex.
Variations of 6. InflectionalOrthography. Changes
Vowels. 7. Inflectional Consonants 1Changes
PART II.
ETYMOLOGY.
CHAPTER I.
THE PARTS OF ETC.SPEECH,
8. Names of the Parts of 9. Number. 10.Speech.
12. Declension. 13. GeneralGender. 11. Case.
Rules for Declension 5Tl CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IL
NOUNS.
PAGE.
H. Vowel-Declension. 18.'15, 16, 17, Paradigms.
19. N-Declension. 22. 23.20, 21, Paradigms.
Names. 24. Names of Countries. 25. For-Proper
mation of Names. 26. DistinctiveProper Appellations.
27. and Formation of Nouns 8g Origin
CHAPTER HI.
ADJECTIVES.
28. Two Classes of Declension. 29. Indefinite Declen-
sion. 30. Inflection ofParadigms. Monosyllables.
31. Inflection of 32. Definite Declen-Polysyllables.
sion. 33. ofParadigms. Comparison Adjectives.
34. in -est. in35. -mest.Superlatives Superlatives
36. 37. and Forma-Irregular Comparison. Origin
tion of ^ 13Adjectives
CHAPTER IV.
PRONOUNS.
38. Personal Pronouns 39. Possessive Pro-Paradigms.
nouns. 40. Poetical Forms. 41. De-Paradigms.
monstrative Pronouns. 42.Paradigms. Interrogative
Pronouns. 43. Indefinite 44.Pronouns, Compound.
Indefinite 45. Relative Pronouns.Pronouns, Simple.
46. Cardinal and Ordinal.Numerals, 47. Declension
of Numerals. 48. Peculiarities of Inflec-Paradigms.
tion 22
CHAPTER V.
VERDS.
49. Inflection. 50. of Classes. 51.Primary Examples
52. of 53.Euphonic Changes.
54. of Paradigms Icetan, helpan.