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MR HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ON 



RIME-INDEX ACCORDING TO GERMANIC VOWEL-SOUNDS. 



A- 



& 1. Not followed by g or w, rimes with 



a) itself. 



forsaik : taik, 83, 52. 253, 1. baik : saik, 72, 35. 

 achaik : quaik, 150, 9. tail (OE. talu) : nychtin- 



gale, 347, 29. 

 gaip : laip, 132, 100. 



gaittis : schaittis, 85, 8. lakkis : takkis, 77, 5. 

 undertaker : balletmaker, 246, 87. 

 name : schame, 85, 5, etc., lame : schame, 87, 53. 



schame : came (s) 86, 39. 

 same : lame, 126, 17. sam : gam, 202, 11. 

 era vis : wavis, 281, 56. crave : forgaif, 365, 145. 



b) OE. *. 



mak : bak, 202, 17. brak, 377, 79. spak. 79, 1. 

 nychtingail : small, 350, 114. 

 gait : lait, 316, 26. crave, graif, 365, 145. 

 said : maid, 125, 46. pak : bak, 269, 58. 



c) OE. ee + g. 



fare ( = mien) : fair (adj.) Ill, 225. 

 phane : brain : fane, 266, 83. 



d) OE. a. 

 have : laif, 214, 90., etc., gaip : 

 aip : graip : saip : 206, 6. cair 

 nychtingale : hale : 370, 34. 

 lame : schame : hame, 87, 53. 

 name : hame, 86, 18. schame : 

 fair (v) : sair : thair, 71, 19. wair (s) lair, 194, 76. 



„ (v) : mair, 71, 17. fare (s) : mair, 100, 222. 

 cair : mair, 308, 44. rair, 225, 114. 



e) OF. or Lat. a. 

 haif : raif : 214, 90. 



raip, 84, 75. 83, 61. 

 : rair, 225, 114. 



hame, 86, 17. 



gaip : chaip : 84, 76. 



gaittis : debaittis : estaittis : 85, 8. 



,, : stait, 316, 28. 

 schame : fame, 85, 4. 

 name : fame, 85, 7. 

 schame : clame, 86, 32. 



,, : proclaime, 87, 67, etc. 

 name : lame : proclaime : 87, 53. 



„ : shame : blame, 87, 60. 



,, : ,, : defame, 85, 11. 

 fare (s) : repair, 111, 223. 

 spair : foreclair, 301, 67. 



„ : preclair, 301, 67. 

 nychtingaile : vaill, 347, 28. 



f) OF. al or au, Lat. — al. 

 haif : saiff, 214, 90. 

 knaiff : saiff, 205, 43. 

 have : saiff, 266, 98. 

 nychtingaile : oriental, 370, 26. 



: scale, 370, 28. 



g) OF. ai. 

 nychtingaille 



h) OF. ei. 



phane : pane, 266, 95. 

 haif : persaif, 279, 17. 



travail], 347, 31. 370, 34. 

 faill, 348, 35. 

 awail, 351, 17. 

 battale, 370, 34. 



§ 2. It is, I think, impossible to gainsay r Dr Curtis's conclusion that a in open 

 syllables was in most instances already lengthened, or in some more strictly speaking 

 half-long, in the usage of Dunbar ; and in these instances had already an |-sound. and 

 that this lengthening and change of sound is usually indicated by the spelling ai 

 instead of the ME. a + cons + e which Dunbar or his scribes and printers also use. 

 There are, however, apparent exceptions, and particularly when a is followed by k. 

 Thus such rimes as lakkis : takkis, mak : bak, brak : spak, taken together with their 

 NSc. pronunciation, which is undoubtedly & in the modern Lothian and most other 

 Scotch dialects, point to the survival of the a-sound in these words. But again the 

 rimes and spelling forsaik : taik, baik : saik, show taik to have sometimes the e-sound, 

 as was probably also the case with mak when spelt maik (see Curtis, § 5). It seems as 

 though the k had. a tendency to check the lengthening (see Curtis, § 6) [Gerken, § I. 4], 

 and thus to prevent the change to e, it being, of course, almost an axiom that a long 

 vowel changes much more readily than a short one. The other consonants, especially 



