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Mi; HEXKY HELLYSE BA1LD0N ON 



Words in ight : icht : yghfc : ycht. 

 §80. The vowel spelt i or y has in these words various origins. 



1. OE. ie, i, <eo = Grmc. i, e : knight, right, bright, 

 wight (person), sight, plight, fight. 



2. OE. i<ea. (Northinb., Be). 

 night : might (sb and vb). 



3. OE. i = Lat. i. 

 dight. 



4. OE. eo (with later palatalisation) — Grmc. T. 

 light (adj. and adv.). 



5. OE. I. 



alight vb. 



6. OE. 5 : Ang. e mut. of eo" ea : light (vb.), hight. 



7. OE. eo (with later palatisation) = Grmc. iu : light, 



(sb.). 



8. OE. y mut. of u : flight. 



9. ONthmb, e in reduplic. pret. hight. 



10. ON. I. wight (adv. ON. vigr). 



§81. Dunbar rimes these sounds only among themselves, with one remarkable excep- 

 tion. In the poem " In Honour of the City of London " he rimes (89, 35) hiyght and 

 white, and this seems to me to point to the fact that in England, or at least in London, 

 these words had already (1501) like sounds. That is to say, the guttural spirant has 

 disappeared in England, but not in Scotland. But it is curious that the one exception 

 given by Dr Curtis as occurring in Clariodus, is plicht and quhyte (white). Yet 

 white can have had no exceptional pronunciation, seeing how consistently and frequently 

 it rimes with pure It sounds. 



§ 82. Present participles and verbal nouns in ing rime only among themselves with 

 OE. words in ing, and with the Fr. ign adjectival endings as benign and malign (see 

 §79). 



§ 83. Pres : part in and (see § 5). 



§ 84. rimes with 



OE. or ON. I. (including I + g) 



a) itself. 



rydand : bydand, 218, 33. 

 abyde : besyde, 196, 159. 

 byd : besyde, 126, 29. 330, 37. 

 betyd : syd, 177, 36n. 

 wyd : besyde, 330, 36. 

 glyde : syde, 137, 67. 

 blyth : wryth, 196, 121. 



„ : swyth, 304, 9. 

 syne (si}>|>en) : myne, 214, 81. 

 beschitten : sitten, 137, 70. 

 bakbytting : flytting, 151, 22. 

 swyne : myne, 214, 85. 

 Ryne : wyne, 42, 53. 

 wyiss (adj.) : wpryse, 234, 11. 

 wyiss (sb.) syss, 106, 101. 

 syss : ryp, 106, 101. 



gryss (NE. grice, ON. griss) : unwyse, 319, 59. 

 dryfer : ryver : 3ads\vyver, 178, 374. 

 smyle (NE. smile, deriv. uncertain) (?) : quhyle, 



94, 36. 

 yle : (?) quhyle, 265, 61. 

 wyd : byd, 330, 36. 

 ryd : slyd : abyd, 125, 4. 

 stryd : syd, 194, 70. 

 Fyf (Fifeshire) : lyf : wyf, 197, 161. 

 lyfe : swyfe, 83, 67. 

 „ : wyf, 223, 43. 



thryff : fyve : belyff, 246, 95. 



smyle : (?) wyle : quhyle : myle, 110, 224. 



glyde : wyde, 225, 112. besyde, 225, 116. 



„ : tyde : ryd, 226, 128. 

 dryf : lyve, 385, 47. 

 fyve : schryve, 358, 9. 359, 18. 

 knyfe : lyfe, 83, 74. 

 lyfe : ryfe, 83, 66. 377, 91. 

 hen wyf e : lyfe, 71, 24. 

 lyfe : schryve, 1359, 23. 



„ : fyve, 359, 21. 

 ryfe : swyve, 83, 67. 

 friendlyk : tyk, 200, 13. 

 lyk : shryke : stryke, 225, 87. 

 ryne (NE. fountain, source) : schyne, 370, 12. 



b) OE. i + g or c (see § 75, 76). 



c) OE. or ON. y (see § 112). 

 abyde : bryde, 196, 158. 

 besyd : bryde, 198, 157. 

 schyne : ryne, 370, 12. 

 wy (man) : sky, 219, 43. 

 myne : tyne, 82, 22. 

 wynis : tynis, 80, 31. 



d) Fr. i, ie, or Lat. i. 

 abyde : provide, 44. 6. 



ryce (NE. brushwood) : pryce : cuvatyce, etc., 310, 



31. 

 belyve : discryve, 43, 71. 



