Accidence [§§ 224-5 endings of the pronominal adjectives were extended to all adjectives. These remarks apply to what is called in the Germanic languages the strong declension of adjectives. The so-called weak declension of adjectives is a special Germanic formation by means of the suffixes -en·, -on-, which were originally used to form nomina agentis, and attributive nouns, as Lat. edō (gen. eđōnis), glutton, Goth. staua, judge, wardja, guard, watchman, gen. stauins, wardjins; Lat. adjectives catus, sly, cunning, rūfus, red, red-haired, silus, pug-nosed, beside the proper names Catō (gen. Catōnis), lit. the sly one, Rufō, the red-haired man, Silo, the pug-nosed man; and similarly in Gothic blinds, blind, Huts, hypocritical, deceitful, weihs, holy, beside blinđa, blind man, liuta, hypocrite, weiha, priest, lit. holy one. Such nouns came to be used attributively at an early period, and then later as adjectives. And already in prim. Germanic this weak declension became the rule when the adjective followed the definite article, as ahma sa weiha, lit. ghost (he holy one ; OE. Wulfmær se geonga,lVu//mær the Young, OHG. Ludowīg ther snello, Ludwig the Brave, cp. NHG. Karl der Grosse. At a later period, but still in prim. Germanic, the two kinds of adjectives—strong and weak— became differentiated in use. When the one and when the other form was used in Gothic is a question of syntax (§ 430). It should be noted that there were also adjectival η-stems in the parent Indg. language, but that they did not have vocalic stems beside them as is the case in the Germanic languages. § 224. In Gothic the adjectives are declined as strong or weak (§ 480). They have three genders and the same cases as nouns. A. THE STRONG DECLENSION. § 225. The strong declension contains a-stems, 1-stems, and u-stems. The case endings are partly nominal and