Participle I

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 517.

OE ME

wrītande (North)

wrītendewrītende(Midlands) -inge (descended from the verbal substantive)

wrītinde (South)

The development of the DEFINITE ARTICLE

Demonstrative pronoun sē (masculine) > þē

(on the analogy with oblique þē (ēo > ē) (ModE the)

cases þæs, þæm, þone)

sēo (feminine) > þēo

The development of the INDEFINITE ARTICLE