#ea# before #r# + cons. is _ea_, bearm 71, nearewe b 204; before lengthening groups, bearnes 75, heard b 44, but _a_ in scharp 64, 65, 67 and always after #w#, warde b 231, -ward as in frommard b 165, inward 36, toward b 89, utward 37, warm b 23, warneð 11. _ea_ in chearre b 238, wearien b 6 represents #æ#, _i_-umlaut of unbroken (Anglian) #a#. #ea# before #l# + cons. is regularly _a_ (Anglian), alle 7 &c., falleð 6, halden b 193. The _i_-umlaut has _ea_ = #æ# from unbroken #a#, ealde b 124, healden b 197, both before a lengthening group. #eo# before #r# + cons. is regularly _eo_, heorte 51, keorue b 34; before length. groups, eorðe 85, sweord 65, Beornard b 219, but Anglian smoothing is seen in werkes b 62, b 67, b 81. To the #wur# group belong wurðen 88, forwurðen 23, forwurðe b 95: warpere 64, warpeð 66 are Scandinavian; WS. forms are #weorpere#, #wierpð#. The _i_-umlaut is wanting in heordemonne b 6, iheortet 31; #wier, wyr# words have _u_, vnwurðe b 108, b 219, wurse 16, 56, b 37, iwurset b 191. #eo# before #l# + cons. is _eo_ in seolf 59, seoluen b 204 &c. #ea#, the _u_- and _å_-umlaut of #a#, is seen in eateliche 58, 69, eawles 67 (#awul#), meaðeleð 73, 96, streapeles b 42, vnsteaðeluest 5; fearen b 197, misfearen 13, and analogically (Bülbring § 228 anm.), feareð 79, b 120, forfearinde 29, gleadie b 232, heatien b 141, ?peaðereð 81, ?skleatteð 53. This umlaut is specifically Mercian. #eo#, _u_-umlaut of #e#, gives heouene 3, b 185, but world 40, worldliche b 79 &c.: #eo#, _å_-umlaut of #e#, beoden b 124, b 206, b 237, breoken b 20, eoten 99, ȝeouen b 71 (from Mercian #ġefan#), and analogically, beore b 31, b 136, forbeoren b 149, breoke b 216, eote b 127, eoten b 150, ȝeoue b 131, b 173, b 233, forȝeoued b 200 (but ȝef 102), speoke b 132, speoken b 138: an Anglian feature. #eo#, _u_- and _å_-umlaut of #i#, is seen in cleopede 9, 11, bicleopet b 192, leoðeliche b 28 (#liþig#, OWScand. liðugr), neomen b 72, b 174, neome b 34, neomen b 189, neomunge 7, seoue 21, seouene 4, seolc b 69, seoluer 84, sweoke b 160, teolunges 6, but hare 5 &c. is the regular representative of #heora#, suster b 4 &c., of WS. #sweostor#, Anglian wike b 189, of WS. #wucan# (*#wiucu#). #ea# after palatals is _a_, schal 42 &c., ischauen b 101, schape b 146, but _e_ in ȝeten b 128 (WS. #gatu#), _eo_ before nasal, scheome b 51: schapieð b 70 is a ME. formation. #ie# after #ġ# is _e_ (Mercian monophthong), ȝef 102, 104, ȝeueð b 68, ȝelden 15, b 7, forȝelde b 175, ȝelp 37; this _e_ with _å_-umlaut gives forms in _eo_, ȝeouen &c. as above. #ȝef#, EWS. #gief#, is ȝef 9. #eo# after #ġ# is _u_, ȝungre b 132; after #sc#, schule 99, schulde 22 &c. (Anglian). #eom# is am b 236 (Anglian), #heom#, ham 4 &c.