| POSITIVE. | COMPARATIVE. | SUPERLATIVE. |
| ille, | werre. | —— |
| lite, | lesse, | leist. |
| long, |
leng, lengere, | —— |
| leng, lengere, | ||
| mikel, |
mo, mor, | moste. |
| mo, mor, | ||
| neg, | —— | neste. |
| old, | eldere, | eldeste. |
Numerals.—The Northumbrian forms in -nde have superseded the Southern ones in -the; as, seuende (seventh), egtende (eighth), tende (tenth).[[52]]
III. Pronouns.
1. The first personal pronoun Ic is never found softened into Ich as in Laȝamon's Brut, the Ancren Riwle, and other Southern works. I is found only once or twice throughout the poem.
2. The first and second personal pronouns have a dual as well as a plural number; as, wit, we two; unc, us two; gunc, you two; gunker, of you two.
3. Hine (hin, in) (acc.) occasionally occurs, but more frequently him (dat.) does duty for it.
4. Ge, ghe,[[53]] she, represents the A.Sax. héo (O.E. heo, ho, and hi). The curious form sge (= sye), as well as sche, occurs for she, the earliest instance of which is scæ in the A.Sax. Chronicle.
5. The neuter pronoun is written it and not hit, and is frequently used as a plural. It coalesces with the pronoun ge, ghe[[54]] (she), and with the preterite of verbs terminating in -de or -te,[[55]] and with some few irregular verbs; as, sagt (saw there), p. 37, l. [1301]. The curious form negt (in l. [3964], p. 112) = neg + it = nigh it.
6. The A.Sax. hi (they) is represented by he = hie.[[56]] He is common enough in the Romance of Havelok the Dane.[[57]]
The pronouns, as has already been shown, coalesce with the plural (acc.) is (them), and give us the compounds hes, he + them; wes, we + them;[[58]] mes = me + hes = one + them.[[59]]