Unmoulded time-words take -ed, but a few of them take -ed or -en; as,
| Grave, | graved, | graved, |
| graven. |
These following, as is shown by the Saxon, ought to take -ed rather than -en:—
- Hew.
- Rive.
- Show.
Shape, shave, and swell were in Saxon moulded, and thence took -en.
There is a set of time-words which were weak, but are now endingless in their mark-word shape. They ended with a roof-penning -t or -d, and the roof-penning of the ending -ed ran at last into the roof-penning of the stems in the way shown on p. [22], and their mark-word shapes are the same as those for bygone time.
- Cast.
- Cost.
- Cut.
- Hit.
- Let.
- Put.
- Rid.
- Set.
- Shoot.
- Shut.
- Split.
- Spread.
- Shed.
Shortened Shapes (p. [23]).
- Bred.
- Crept.
- Dealt.
- Fed.
- Fled.
- Left.
- Lost.
- Slept.
- Sped.
- Spilt.
- Swept.
- Wept.