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 CHAPTER XI THE IRREGULAR VERBS THE irregular verbs are : mos (earlier mones], to go. dos (earlier dones), to come. don, to bear or carry. dry, to bring. ry, to give. godhvos, to know. Of these, mos and don are each made up of two different verbs. The irregularities of dos, dry, and r$ are due to contractions, and those of godhvas chiefly to its being compounded with bos, to be. There are irregularities also in the auxiliary verbs gwil, to do, and gaily, to be able, but these have been already given in Chapter IX. In earlier Cornish the inflected forms of the irregular verbs were freely used, but later these are comparatively rare, and the impersonal and auxiliary forms became so much commoner that the full inflected form can only be gathered from the early writings and from the rather imperfect paradigms given by Lhuyd. It is not necessary to give anything more than the inflected verbs here, for the impersonal and auxiliary tenses can easily be worked out from these on the model of the regular verb. These are given without pronouns, though of course pronouns are used, as with other verbs. In the latest Cornish the infinitives of mds, dos, dry,