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AFT UAMUJ ST4NTA RUNAR

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AFT UAMUJ ST4NTA RUNAR See also:

PAR (Lat. par, equal)

pAR . IN UARIN See also:

FAN (Lat. vannus; Fr. eventail)

FAN FApIR AFT FAIKIAN SUNU,3 1. Old See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish.—The territory of the Old Swedish comprehended— I and probably pronounced (.) See also:

Sweden, except the most northerly See also:

PART

part, where Lappish (and aft Wa.mOC'i stgnda runaa paR; en Warinn fahi faaiR aft td Finnish?) was spoken, the most southerly (Skane, Halland i fa ghi~n sunu, would, no doubt, have had the same fcrm in contemporary Icelandic, except the last word, which would probably have had the less See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

sun. The formal changes of the Swedish See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language during this See also:

period are, generally speaking, such as appear about the same See also:

time in all the members of the group—as the See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of soft R into See also:

COMMON

common r (the Rok-See also:

stone runait, later runar, See also:

RUNES, RUNIC LANGUAGE AND INSCRIPTIONS

runes; this appeared earliest after dental consonants, later after an accented vowel), and the change of sp into st (in the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century raispi, later rceisti, raised) ; or they are, at least, common to it with Norwegian—as the dropping of h before 1, n and r (in the loth century hrauR, younger, r¢r, See also:

CAIRN (in Gaelic and Welsh, Carn)

cairn), and the changing of nasal vowels (the See also:

long ones latest) into non-nasalized. But the See also:

case is altogether different during what we may See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call the classical period of Old Swedish (1225–1375), the time of the later runic See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions and the See also:

OLDEST

oldest literature. During this period the language is already distinctly See also:

SEPARATE

separate from the (See also:

LITERARY

literary) Icelandic-See also:

NORWEGIAN

Norwegian (though not yet very much from Danish).

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