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Sweet, Henry, 1845-1912

"Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary"

_ganga_ (to go) with _f??_ (to get), the dat.
plurals _knj??m_ (knees) with _h?«sum_ (houses).
30. Vowels are often lengthened before _l_ + cons.: _h??lfr_ (half
_adj._), _f??lk_ (people); cp. _f??lginn_ (hidden) with _brostinn_
(burst _ptc._).
Consonants
31. _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_, _r_, _s_ are preceded by a cons.
drop the _r_ entirely, as in the masc. nominatives _jarl_ (earl),
_hrafn_ (raven), _vitr_ (wise), _??urs_ (giant), _lax_ (salmon).


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