§§zai-3] Adjectives 103 The prim. Germ, forms of baúrgs were: Sing, nom. *t)urxs (§ 138), ace. "ftu^un, gen. 'bursaz or -iz, dat. *Burgi; PL nom. *Burgiz, ace. "iJurgunz, gen. *t>urgðn, dat. *ftur3umlz, from which are regularly developed the gen. dat. sing, and nom. plural (but see § 160). Nom. sing, baúrgs for *baúrhs with g from the other cases. The ace. pi. is the nom. used for the accusative. The ace. sing, and gen. and dat. pi. were formed after the analogy of the 1 -stems (§ 198). The regular forms would have been *baúrgu, *baúrgō, *baúrgum. §221. In the same manner are declined :—alhs, temple; brusts, breast; đulþs, feast; miluks, milk; mitaþs (gen. mitads), measure; nahts, night, but dat. pi. nahtam, formed after the analogy of dagam (§ 178); spaúrds, racecourse; waíhts, thing. NOTE.—đulfis and waíhts are also declined according to the i-declension (§ 198). 5. Neuters. § 222. Sing. nom. ace. fon,fire, gen. funins, dat. funin. No plural forms occur. | ||||||
CHAPTER XI ADJECTIVES THE DECLENSION OF ADJECTIVES. § 223. In the parent Indg. language nouns and adjectives were declined alike without any distinction in endings, as in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. What is called the un-inílected form of adjectives in the Germanic languages is a remnant of the time when nouns and adjectives were declined alike. But already in Indo-Germanic the pronominal adjectives had partly nominal and partly pronominal endings as in Sanskrit. In prim. Germanic the | ||||||