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Cleave [49]Clave Clove

Steal [49]Stale Stole

Eat Ate -- Seethe -- [49]Sod

Tread [49]Trad Trod

Bear Bare Bore

Tear Tare Tore

Swear Sware Swore

Wear [49]Ware Wore

Bid Bade Bid

Sit Sate -- Give Gave -- Lie Lay -- Get [49]Gat Got

Here observe,--1 That in _speak_, _cleave_, _steal_, the _ea_ has the same poith the _ee_ in _freeze_ and _seethe_; so that it(or independent) sound of the _i_ in _bid_, _sit_, _give_

2 That the sah the word by soabrak_, Moeso-Gothic; _briku_, _brak_, Old Saxon; _brece_, _brac_, Anglo-Saxon

Also of _bear_, _tear_, _swear_, _wear_ In the provincial dialects these words are even now pronounced _beer_, _teer_, _sweer_ The fores are, in {311} respect to these last-mentioned words, less confirh German, _sverju_, _piru_

3 That the _ea_ in _tread_ was originally long; Anglo-Saxon, _tredan_, _trede_, _tr['ae]d_, _treden_

4 _Lie_--Here the sound is diphthongal, having grown out of the Anglo-Saxon forinal praeterite was long This we collect frolo-Saxon _s['ae]t_

_Ninth Class_

-- 372 _A_, as in _fate_, is changed either into the _o_ in _note_, or the _oo_ in _book_ Here it should be noticed that, unlike _break_ and _swear_, &c, there is no tendency to sound the _a_ of the present as _ee_, neither is there, as was the case with _clove_ and _spoke_, any tendency to secondary forinal nature of the vowel The original vowel in _speak_ was e If this was the _e ferme_ of the French, it was a sound froht equally have been evolved The vowel sound of the verbs of the present class was that of _a_ for the present and that of _o_ for the praeterite forrof_ Now of these two sounds it may be said that the _a_ has no tendency to become the _ee_ in _feet_, and that the _o_ has no tendency to become the _a_ in _fate_

The sounds that are evolved from the accentuated _o_, are the _o_ in _note_ and the _oo_ in _book_

_Present_ _Praeterite_

Awake Awoke

Wake Woke

Lade [50]Lode

Grave [50]Grove

Take Took

Shake Shook

Forsake Forsook

Shape [50]Shope

_Tenth Class_

-- 373 Containing the single word _strike_, _struck_, _stricken_ It is only in the Middle High Gerh Gerlish, that {312} this word is found in its praeterite forh German, _strich_; Middle Dutch, _strec_; Modern Dutch, _strik_ Originally it must have been referable to the ninth class

_Eleventh Class_

-- 374 In this class we first find the secondary forular and plural nue is from the _i_ in _bite_ to the _o_ in _note_, and the _i_ in _pit_

Sometilo-Saxon conjugation (A) lish (B)