The Bruce 36Book 11 · Note the periphrastic form with gan in E (can in a few cases),
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The Bruce 36
Book 11 · Note the periphrastic form with gan in E (can in a few cases),
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can always in C: all the land gan occupy (I. 184); _all can thai cry_ (XII. 200). The past tense of can is couth: _thar vittale all fast couth fale_ (VIII. 460): whence, by analogy, the false form begouth for past of gan, itself the past of ginnen, to begin.
