The Bruce 26Book 11 · Only men suffers inflection in the plural possessive: the Inglis
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The Bruce 26
Book 11 · Only men suffers inflection in the plural possessive: the Inglis
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menis fewte_ (VIII. 19), of othir mennis landis (XI. 148). In till Scottis men possessioune (XVII. 202) we may have, as Henschel suggests, a piece of “scribal carelessness;” but Hampole undoubtedly uses this as a valid form:
“Sal dede men banes be set togyder
Thurgh messes, and rightwis men prayers.”
Murray, Dialect of the Southern Counties, p. 153.
Darstellung der Flexionslehre in John Barbour’s Bruce, p. 12.
PROPER NOUNS.
In general, these follow the common nouns in their forms, but note:
