Uncompounded names of countries are sometimes undeclined. Thus we find on Cęnt, tō Hierusalēm.
Ġermānia, Asia, and other foreign names in -a take -e in the oblique cases, thus gen. Ġermānie.
ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives have three genders, and the same cases as nouns, though with partly different endings, together with strong and weak inflection. In the masc. and neut. sing. they have an instrumental case, for which in the fem. and plur., and in the weak inflection the dative is used.
STRONG ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives with a short syllable before the endings take -u in the fem. sing. nom. and neut. pl. nom., those with a long one drop it.
| SINGULAR. | ||||
| Masc. | Neut. | Fem. | ||
| (a) | Nom. | cwic (alive), | cwic, | cwic-u. |
| Acc. | cwic-ne, | cwic, | cwic-e. | |
| Dat. | cwic-um, | cwic-um, | cwic-re. | |
| Gen. | cwic-es, | cwic-es, | cwic-re. | |
| Instr. | cwic-e, | cwic-e. | (cwicre). | |
| PLURAL. | ||||
| Nom. | cwic-e, | cwic-u, | cwic-e. | |
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| Dat. | cwic-um. | |||
| Gen. | cwic-ra. | |||
So also sum (some), fǣrlic (dangerous).