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14 no less than give a substantive and a verb, to show how our brethren (I may now at last drop the word cousins) formed their inflections.

All these Teutonic tribes must have easily understood each other, about the time of Christ's birth; since, hundreds of years after that event, they were using the above-cited inflections. They had by this time wan&shy;dered far from the old Aryan framework of speech. Thus, to take one instance — the Dative Plural in um; the Sanscrit Nominative sûnus formed its Dative Plural