35. VOCABULARY.

35. VOCABULARY.

ðæt dæl, _dale_. ðæt dêor, _animal_ [deer[4]]. ðæt dor, _door_. ðæt fæt, _vessel_ [vat]. ðæt fy: r, _fire_. ðæt gêar, _year_. ðæt geoc, _yoke_. ðæt geset, _habitation_ [settlement]. ðæt hêafod, _head_. ðæt hûs, _house_. ðæt lîc, _body_ [lich-gate]. ðæt lim, _limb_. on (with dat.) _in_. ðæt spor, _track_. ðæt wæ: pen, _weapon_. ðæt wîf, _wife, woman_. ðæt wîte, _punishment_. ðæt word, _word_.

[Footnote 4: The old meaning survives in Shakespeare's "Rats and mice and such small deer," _King Lear_, III, iv, 144.]

36. EXERCISES.

I. 1. Hê hafað ðæs cyninges bearn. 2. Ðâ Wêalas habbað ðâ speru. 3. Ðâ wîf habbað ðâra secga wæ: pnu. 4. Ðû hæfst ðone fugol ond ðæt hûs ðæs hierdes. 5. Hæfð[5] hêo ðâ fatu[6]? 6. Hæfde hê ðæs wîfes lîc on ðæ: m hofe? 7. Hê næfde ðæs wîfes lîc; hê hæfde ðæs dêores hêafod. 8. Hæfð sê cyning gesetu on ðæ: m dæle? 9. Sê bôcere hæfð ðâ sêolas on ðæ: m hûse. 10. Gê habbað frêodôm.

II. 1. They have yokes and spears. 2. We have not the vessels in the house. 3. He had fire in the vessel. 4. Did the woman have (= Had the woman) the children? 5. The animal has the body of the woman's child. 6. I shall have the heads of the wolves. 7. He and she have the king's houses. 8. Have not (= #Nabbað#) the children the warrior's weapons?

[Footnote 5: See § 20, (2), (b).]

[Footnote 6: See § 27, (2).]