ii4 Accidence [§§ 345-6 which had -ōz- in the comparative had -ðst- in the superlative ; but there are not sufficient examples of the comparative and superlative of the same adjective extant to enable us to establish the rule with certainty. The superlative has both the strong and weak declension. In the former case it is declined like blinds (§ 226), except that the neut. nom. ace, sing, in -ata does not occur, and perhaps was not in use; and in the latter case like blinda (§ 237). Examples of the superlative are armōsts, poorest; háu-hists, highest; managists, greatest. 3. Irregular Comparison. § 245. The following adjectives form their comparative and superlative from a different root or stem than the positive:— PoS. CoMP. SUPERL. gðþs (gen. gōdis), good batiza batists leitils, little minníza minnists mikils, great málza máists sineigs, old wanting sinista ublls, evil waírsiza wanting NOTE.—sinista is used as the translation of Gr. πρεσβύτερο.!, elder, bái sinistans, the elders. § 246. There are six superlative forms ending in -ma, •tuma, -duma which were formed from adverbial stems with the Germanic superlative suffixes .urn·, -turn·, •đum·, cp. Lat. optimus, best; intimus from *entemos, inmost = Indg. *en-tmos with vocalic m (§ 53). On the -t-beside đ see §§ 128 note 2, 138. The forms are: auhuma, higher; fruma, the former, prior, first; innuma, the inner, innermost; aftuma, the following, next, posterus; iftuma, the following, next; hleiduma, the left, which are all declined weak like hana (§ 207), haírtō (§ 213), manage! (§ 210). These came to have a comparative meaning in Gothic,