f Suffolk, and a _Saxon_ of Essex.

b. The Romans who knew, for some parts at least, every inch of the land
occupied by the Saxons of Germany, as long as there is reason for
believing that they took their names from German sources, never use the
word. It is strange to Caesar, Strabo, Pliny, and Tacitus. Ptolemy is
the first who uses it.

c. Ecbert, who is said to have attached the name of _Engl_and, or Land
of _Angles_, to South Britain, was, himself, no _Angle_, but a
West-Saxon.[66]

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QUESTIONS ON PARTS IV. V. VI. and VII.

PART IV.

1. What is Johnson's explanation of the word _Etymology_? Into what
varieties does the study fall? What is the difference between
_Etymology_ and _Syntax_?

2. How far are the following words instances of gender--_boy_,
_he-goat_, _actress_, _which_? Analyze the forms _what_, _her_, _its_,
_vixen_, _spinster_, _gander_, _drake_.

3. How far is there a dual number in the Gothic tongues? What is the
rule for forming such a plural as _stags_ from _stag_? What are the
peculiarities in _monarchs_, _cargoes_, _keys_, _pence_, _geese_,
_children_, _women_, _houses_, _paths_, _leaves_? Of what number are
the words _alms_, _physics_, _news_, _riches_?

4. To what extent have we in English a dative, an accusative, and
instrumental case? Disprove the doctrine that the genitive in -s (_the
father's son_) is formed out of the combination _father his_.

5. Decline _me_, _thee_, and _ye_.

6. How far is there a true reflective pronoun in English?

7. What were the original powers and forms of _she_, _her_, _it_? What
case is _him_? What is the power and origin of _the_ in such
expressions as _all the more_? Decline _he_ in Anglo-Saxon. Investigate
the forms _these_ and _those_, _whose_, _what_, _whom_, _which_,
_myself_, _himself_, _herself_, _such_, _every_.

8. What is the power (real or supposed) of the -er in _over_, and in
_either_?

9. What words in the present English are explained by the following
forms--_sutiza_ in Moeso-Gothic, and _scearpor_, _neah_, _yldre_, in
Anglo-Saxon? Explain the forms, _better_, _worse_, _more_, _less_.

10. Analyze the words _former_, _next_, _upmost_, _thirty_,
_streamlet_, _sweetheart_, _duckling_.

11. Translate _Ida waes Eopping_. Analyze the word _Wale