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Skeat, Walter William, 1835-1912

"English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day"

15," are to the
chapters and verses of St Matthew's Gospel, as printed in my edition
of _The Holy Gospels, in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian
Versions, synoptically arranged_ (Cambridge, 1871-87). The first
column below gives the Modern English form, the second the Old Mercian
form (with references), and the third the Anglo-Saxon or Wessex form:
MODERN OLD MERCIAN WESSEX (A.S.)
all all, 5. 15 eall
are arun, 19. 28 (_not used_)
betwixt betwix, 27. 56 betweox
cheek c{-e}ke, 5. 39 c{-e}ace
5 cold cald, 10. 42 ceald
eke {-e}k, 5. 39 {-e}ac
eleven enlefan, 28. 16 endlufon
eye {-e}ge, 5. 29 {-e}age
falleth falleth, 10. 29 fealleth
10 fell, _pt.t.pl._ fellun, 7. 25 f{-e}ollon
-fold -fald, 19. 29 -feald
(_in_ ten-fold)
gall, _sb._ galla, 27. 34 gealla
half, _sb.


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