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... Old English beran " bear , " past singular bær , past plural baron , past participle boren ) . ( 2 ) In the " weak ... Norse meire , Old English and Old Frisian māra , Old Saxon mêro , and Old High German mēro . In addition , they also ...
... Old English beran " bear , " past singular bær , past plural baron , past participle boren ) . ( 2 ) In the " weak ... Norse meire , Old English and Old Frisian māra , Old Saxon mêro , and Old High German mēro . In addition , they also ...
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... Old Norse as vēr , and in Old High German as wir , appears in Old English as wē and in Old Frisian and Old Saxon as wī ) . 5. North Germanic , Elbe Germanic , and East Ger- manic share the addition of the Proto - Germanic nomina- tive ...
... Old Norse as vēr , and in Old High German as wir , appears in Old English as wē and in Old Frisian and Old Saxon as wī ) . 5. North Germanic , Elbe Germanic , and East Ger- manic share the addition of the Proto - Germanic nomina- tive ...
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... Old Norse finnast " be found , exist , " Danish findes ) ; at- taches the demonstrative inn " that " to nouns as a definite article ( Old Norse fótrinn " the foot , " Norwegian and Swedish foten , Danish foden ) , except in West Jutland ...
... Old Norse finnast " be found , exist , " Danish findes ) ; at- taches the demonstrative inn " that " to nouns as a definite article ( Old Norse fótrinn " the foot , " Norwegian and Swedish foten , Danish foden ) , except in West Jutland ...
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