Such as that. «£n£ot3 such as Mis (talis) cikasSofi what sort? (qualis.)
So So many <^^X Now many.
e>o&, S\o«£ #o much °*otS .Hba; muck &c.
Instead of the initial vowels A, I, E, the syllables TA, TI, TE are perpetually written. Thus t5^_2», there, here,
where, are written cx"^_^, S3a|f_Ji. This mode of spell
ing is not inconvenient. But by an error in which all persist (and the same appears in copies of poems) the letter Te (denoting which) is almost always written Ya meaning that. Thus abo& how much? becomes cssioS thus much. A little practice will enable'us to recollect this perversion; which otherwise may sometimes create a doubt. We merely have to recollect that instead of ye it is customary, though wrong, to write ya.
DEFECTIVE NOUNS.
Some nouns have no singular nominative; and are placed in the plural form in the Dictionary. Thus, ^e», «milk.' Many names of particular kinds of grain are thus defective. Thus
The word water is used in the plural: unless in poems, which at pleasure use the singular as is already explained. Thus g" a little water: literally a few waters.
Irregular Defective Nouns and Adverbial Declension. Some adverbs and other parts of speech are capable of declension as defective nouns of the third declension. Thus above, §o« beneath, etc+ within are properly mere adverbs; and though they have no nominative they have a genitive, and sometimes other cases. But it will be perceived that in translation these cases become other parts of speech.
