Archaic case & gender

English once had three genders (masculine, neuter, and feminine) and five cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and instrumental).

The following shows what this might look like if these genders and cases had lived on into today's English and had followed regular sound changes.


 * 1 The instrumental case was already dying in Old English and is only attested in the masculine and neuter shape.


 * 2 The s in se and seo became th by analogy.


 * 3 Thee would likely become unstressed and blend with 'the', 'thee' is a more conservative take of the word.


 * 4 By Middle English, unstressed /m/ at the end of a word had become /n/.

An easier, Less conservative version

The above is a truly   of this thought, far  than any  of today. and are more held back than most of the tungs of, yet even they wouldn't go so far as to hold an instrumental. , I would call the above board the most held back that the tung could be, and in my eyes, it doesn't fit the  even for this. Let us for an delve into a less held back take of this held back. I am of the mind that do not fit with today's English, however, I have another thought for how Anglish could show these.

My first thought was to look into Middle English, but it seems that sorely early on did this. Chaucer's English had naught but one take of 'the', our speech. Some of the old ways had only in some byleeds, and by the mid-14th, they had died out. So instead, let's see how, which were more held back, handled these.

Unluckily, English lost last schwa and -en (barring "oxen" and "children" mind you, also some byleeds have "eyen" (for eyes), "shoon" (for shoes), "hosen" (for hose(s)), "kine" (for cows), and "been" (for bees)) making the above board much less clear in meaning, think on "teachers teacher's teachers'" and how none of those words are, yet they mean unlike things, and are  in unlike steads. While I think it would be lovely to bring back -en forsooth, nothing can be done about last schwa. But what if 'the' followed the above ?

Bid see that ye needn't bother with weak thingwords unless ye like 'shoon', 'kine', 'been', and so forth. Some, mayhaps, might go so far as to all thear weak thingword.

For, was weak in OE. "The Germanic languages" becomes "Thoe northedish tungen".

See that 'thear' (which would rhyme with 'ear') takes an, and that the horrid ' in apple's is forsaken, made clear by the article. It should also be that 'thass' & 'thear' overset 'of the'.

For :


 * "The knights of the round table" > "Thoe knights thass sinowwealt board"
 * "That is the master's hat" > "That is thass masters hat." -or- ""That is the hat thass masters."
 * "The blackbird's feathers" > "Thass blackbirds feathers" -or- "Thoe feathers thass blackbirds"
 * "The black birds' feathers" > "Thear black bird feathers" -or- "Thoe feathers thear black bird"
 * "The bee's knees" > "Thear been knees" -or- "Thoe knees thear been"
 * "I pull the cow's utters" > "I pull thass kine utters" -or- "I pull thoe utters thass kine"