| Masculine. | Feminine. | Neuter. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sing. N. | gōd | gōd | gōd |
| G. | gōdes | gōdre | gōdes |
| D. | gōdum | gōdre | gōdum |
| A. | gōdne | gōde | gōd |
| I. | gōde | —— | gōde |
| Plur N.A. | gōde | gōda | gōd |
| G. | gōdra | gōdra | gōdra |
| D.I. | gōdum | gōdum | gōdum |
[81.]
If the stem is short, -u is retained as in giefu ([§ 39, (1)]) and hofu ([§ 33, (1)]). Thus glæd ([§ 27, Note 1]), glad, and til, useful, are inflected:
| Masculine. | Feminine. | Neuter. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sing. N. |  | glæd til | gladu tilu | glæd til |
| Plur N.A. | | glade tile | glada tila | gladu tilu |
(b) Polysyllables.
[82.]
Polysyllables follow the declension of short monosyllables. The most common terminations are -en, -en; -fæst, -fast; -full, -ful; -lēas, -less; -līc, -ly; -ig, -y: hǣð-en (hǣð = heath), heathen; stęde-fæst (stęde = place), steadfast; sorg-full (sorg = sorrow), sorrowful; cyst-lēas (cyst = worth), worthless; eorð-līc (eorðe = earth), earthly; blōd-ig (blōd = blood), bloody. The present and past participles, when inflected and not as weak adjectives, may be classed with the polysyllabic adjectives, their inflection being the same.
Syncopation occurs as in a-stems ([§ 27, (4)]). Thus hālig, holy, blīðe, blithe, berende, bearing, geboren, born, are thus inflected:
| Masculine. | Feminine. | Neuter. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sing. N. |  | hālig blīðe berende geboren | hālgu blīðu berende geborenu | hālig blīðe berende geboren |
| Plur N.A. | | hālge blīðe berende geborene | hālga blīða berenda geborena | hālgu blīðu berendu geborenu |