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Old English brecÞa and -brecÞ

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Alfred Bammesberger
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Abstract

OE brecÞa in Beowulf 171 is taken by editors and commentators as either nominative singular of a masculine n-stem or nominative plural of a feminine ō-stem. Syntactic considerations suggest and morphologic observations prove that it is a masculine n-stem. OE -brecÞ occurs only in composition and is a different formation.

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1967, pp. 452 - 456
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Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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