CHAPTER IV.

AFFINITIES OF THE ENGLISH WITH THE LANGUAGES OF GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA.

65. _General_ affinities of the English language 28 67. The term _Gothic_ 28 69. _Scandinavian_ branch 28 70. _Teutonic_ branch 31 {xxi} 71. Moeso-Gothic 31 73. Origin of the Moeso-Goths 32 76. Name not Germanic 33 77. Old High German 35 78. Low Germanic division 36 79. Frisian 36 81. Old Frisian 37 82. Platt-Deutsch 38 83. Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic compound 38 84. Scandinavian article 40 88. Scandinavian verb 44 91. Declension in _-n_ 45 92. Difference between languages of the same division 46 93. Weak and strong nouns 46 Moeso-Gothic inflections 47 94. Old Frisian and Anglo-Saxon 50 98. The term _German_ 56 99. The term _Dutch_ 57 100. The term _Teutonic_ 58 101. The term _Anglo-Saxon_ 59 102. _Icelandic_, Old Norse 59