The forms in -er, -est, are properly adverbial and not adjectival.

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tigðe = tithe, tenth, occurs in l. [895], and tigðes in l. [1628].

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Orm uses the more Northern ȝho (Northumbrian sco).

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get = she it: "al get bit otwinne," she biteth it all in two (Bestiary, O.E. Miscell., p. 9).

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See p. xix.

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