The Bruce 32Book 11 · After the comparative comes usually than, which is always used by
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The Bruce 32
Book 11 · After the comparative comes usually than, which is always used by
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Rolle, but there are four examples of na--wes starkar fer na he (VI. 538), also III. 229, II. 519, X. 637.
NUMERALS.
1. Ane before a consonant sometimes becomes a: in a nycht and a day (III. 429). The tane and the ta are compounds of this numeral, with the old neuter thaet (thet) of the definite article, really thet-ane, thet-a. The former is a substantive, the latter an adjective: the tane suld be kyng (VI. 186), the ta part (III. 239). Similarly the tothir = thet othir (I. 7, etc.), which is throughout used for the ordinal “the second,” as formast is sometimes used for “the first”: Fule-hardyment the formast is, And the tothir is cowardis (VI. 337, 338).
