Excerpt from A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language: In Which Its Forms Are Illustrated by Those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Friesic, Old Norse and Old High-German General View. 35. Assimilation 22 10. Alphabet 4 36. Dissimilation 24 13. Punctuation 5 37. Compensation 25 14. Sounds 5 Accentual Changes.

15. Accent. 6 38. Gravitation 26 16. Classes of Vowels 6 38. Progression 26 17. Classes of Consonants 7 38. 26 18.

Indo-european Vowel System. 8 39. Ablaut 28 19. Consonant System 8 40. Mimetic Changes 28 20. Changes of Sound 9 Etymologic Changes. 20. Laws of Letter Change 10 41.

Shifting. 28 Special Discussions. Figuration. 21. Classic anglo-saxon 11 43. 22. Voice 11 44, Apocope 23. Vowels - anglo-saxon ll 45.

Elision 26. Northumbrian. 14 46. Syncope 27. Consonants - Anglo Saxon 15 47. Ecthlipsis 31. Northumbrian 18 48. Prothesis variation.

49. Epithesis 32. Euphonic Changes 19 50. Epenthesis 32. Umlaut 19 51. Metathesis 33. Breaking 20 contraction. 34.

Assibilation 20 52. Synaeresis 32 part II. Etymology. 53. Definitions 33 64. Declension 36 59. Classification. 34 67.

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