OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF CHAUCER. 
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The sign (^) is here used to denote all long vowels in Saxon words, without dis- 
tinction of variety; the double dot (^) over a vowel, to denote that the vowel is pro- 
nounced; the italic type, to denote a vowel elided; (^) to indicate that a vowel 
(not elided) is silent (or slurred over); the grave accent, to mark the emphatic 
syllable of a word. ‘The acute accent will be used only with words which in French 
end in é, in which cases the vowel is so marked in the original text. 
Words or letters added to the text are enclosed in brackets, as [e]: 
words or letters 
which I think ought to be omitted from the text are enclosed in parentheses, as (e). 
I have generally used Ettmüller's Lexicon Anglosavonicum (Quedlinburg and Leip- 
sic, 1851), in preference to Bosworth. 
NOUNS. 
$1. Nouns which in Anglo-Saxon end in a vowel 
terminate in Chaucer uniformly in é. 
$2. First DECLENSION or ANGLO-SAXON Nouns. 
-Neuters. (I. 1. RASK.) 
eere (S. eáre, O. ære), 6218, 6603 f, 8603 f. 
yhe, yé (S. eáge, O. ezhe), 10f, 3018f, 4700f, 
8109 f, ete. 
§ 3. Masculines. (I. 2.) 
ape (S. apa), 3933, 7046 f, 13241 f, 15396 f. 
asse (S. assa, O. asse), 16798 f. 
balke (S. balca, bolca), 3918 f. 
bane (S. bana, bona, L. bone, bane), 1099, 1688 f, 
16446 f. 
bere (S. bera), 2144, 1642 f. [2060 f, ez 
bi-leeve (S. ge-leáfa, L. i-lefe, O. læfe), 3456, 11445 f, 
11991 f, 12355 f. 
bowe (S. boga), 17044, 108 f, 9888 f, 17061 f. 
bowé, 2897. 
elifte (S. clffa), 7727 f. 
erede (S. créda), 12975 f. 
erouke (S. crocea), 4156 f. 
euppe (S. cuppa, L. cuppe), 134, 10930 f. 
drope (S. dropa, L. drope), 12450 (181, bad line). 
dwile (S. smod 4159 f. 
boas (S. blóstma, TER O. blosstme), 3324 
(blosme upon). 
. fane (S. fana), 8872 f. 
feere (S. féra, ge-féra, L. i-vere *), 4748 f, 4815 f, 
6506 f, 8989 f. 
foode (S. fóda, O. fode), 7463 f. 
galle (S. gealla, O. galle), 6522 f, 11986 f, 12725 f, 
. 15833 f. 
grame (S. grama, L. grame), 13331 f. 
hare (S. hara), 191 f, 686 f, 1812 f, 15167 f. 
harre (S. heorra), 552 f. 
| hawe (S. haga), 6240 f, 14270 f. 
hiwe (S. hîwa), 9659 f. 
housbonde, housëbonde (S. husbonda, L. husbonde, 
hosebonde), 6034 f, 6062 f, 14578 f, 5612 f, 5959 f. 
housbond, 6085, 8597, (6107?): housëbond, 
16850 : housébondé, 8574. 
hope (S. hopa, L. O. hope), 12798, 2437, 10802, 
12606 f. 
hopě, 88. 
hunte (S. hunta, L. hunte, O. hunnte), 2020. 
hunt, 2014, bad line ; 2630, hunt[e] as. 
hyne (S. hina), 605 f, 13247 f. 
knave (S. cnafa, cnapa, L. enave, O. cnape), 3434, 
3469, 5135, 5142, 8320, 8323, etc. 
gere (S. gearwa, geara); 367? 354 f? ger, 2182 f? 
* i-veren also occurs; but it may be observed, once for 
all, that that form of noun, frequent in Layamon, is not 
cited in these lists. 
