The rain rinns down through Merriland town;
So doth it down the Pa.—Old Ballad.
The Anglo-Saxon form is yrnan; in the præterite arn, urnon. A transposition has since taken place. The word run seems to have been originally no present, but a præterite form.
6. That burst is only an apparent exception. Before r, ĕ, ĭ, ŭ, are pronounced alike. We draw no distinction between the vowels in pert, flirt, hurt. The Anglo-Saxon forms are, berste, byrst, bærse, burston, borsten.
Thirteenth Class.
[§ 376]. Contains the single word choose, in the præterite chose; in Anglo-Saxon, ceóse, ceás.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE WEAK TENSES.