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MR HENRY BELLYSE BAILDON ON 



§ 63. EA. + w., rimes with 

 a) itself, shewis : schrewis : few is, 252, 51. 



b) OE. a + w. Schawin : knawin, 355, 13. 



EO- 



^ G4. rimes with 



a) self, ellevin : hevin, 139, 1. 



hevin : sevin, 43, G5. 71. 26, etc. 



b) OE. e- hevin : uneven, 246, 96. 



sevin : ,, „ ,, 



„ : stevyne, 371, 54. 



c) Angl. e WS. i and y. 

 hevin : allevin (?), 240, 1. 

 sevin : „ (1), „ , 2. 



d) ON. e : 



sevin : nevyne, 371, 58. 



e) OE. ea + g (see § 56). 

 fe : E, 214, 79. 



f) OF. or Lat. u. schute : refute, 109, 181. 



g) OF. ou. 



schute : rebute, 109, 181. 

 h) OF. ui. 



schute : pursuite, 109, 182. 

 j) ON. 5. 



schute : rute, 109, 184. 



§ 65. Allevin, 240,1 is derived by Jamieson from OE. ale/an, but there is the diffi- 

 culty that it is a weak verb ; but it is not impossible that it was formed on analogy. If 

 once the form occurred, the fact that it is one of the very few rimes to hevin, sevin and 

 elevin, would encourage the use of it, and the form might thus become fixed. A possible 

 derivation from the OF. allever, which might give a similar sense of allow or admit, has 

 somewhat the same objection ; but perhaps a loan word admits more readily of false 

 inflexion, if, indeed, it can be called false, than a native word. It might be a form of 

 ellevin (eleven), but that it makes absolutely no sense in this passage. 



EO 



66. 1. before r + cons. rimes with 



a) itself, carvit : starvit, 222, 21. i d) OE. or ON. e 



b) OE. ea. Angl. a (r + cons.) (see § 57). werkis : sarkis, 315, 19. 



c) OE. i or y. e) OF. or Lat. e 



werkis : merkis, 315, 19. dirk : kirk : mirk, 86, 15. carvit : starvit : desarvit, 222, 21. 



wirk : „ „ 86, 20. , f) OF. or Lat. a. 



§ 67. It seems more probable that carvit, starvit, desarvit were pronounced with e 

 sound, as is usual in NSc, than that they had the North E. a sound. 



§ 68. 2. not before r + con., rimes with 

 a) with itself, wilk : milk : silk, 86, 22. 



b) with OE. i. milk : wilk : silk : ilk, 86, 22, 



EO 



(l) = Gmc. eu. (2) contraction from e. I. y., with following a or u through dropping of 



intermediate h or j. 



69. 1. not followed by w or g, rimes with 



a) itself. 



he : see : 124, 35, etc., etc. bee, 248, 8. kne, 261, 



61. 

 „ : ble, 171, 293. kne : se, 97, 100, etc., etc. 



threis : kneis, 173, 300. 

 fe : fre, 214, 73. 

 kne : thre, 194, 85. 



b) OE. eo + gutt(see§71). 



be : hie, 295, 90. he : dre, 354, 2. 



theis : kneis, 194, 70. fie : se, 196, 128. 



c) general OE. or ON. e (see § 42). 

 be :he, 251, 23. se : the, 97, 103. 



kne : the, 97, 103. se : me, 124, 19, etc., etc. 

 fre : he, 214, 7_5. tre : me, 82, 13, etc., etc. 



d) OE. e, Angl. e, mut of o (see § 39). 



e) Angl. e WS. 55 (see § 45). 



f) OE. ae mut of a (see § 50). 



g) Angl. e = WS. a"e (see § 45). 



