(3) =Of T.= #a# before nasals and lengthening groups is _o_, but fram 25 (5) is invariable. #æ# is _a_ (45 times including nase 96, 112), exceptions are hefde 116, hefden 256, hweðer 101, forbearneð 103, readliche 21, smecche 88, wrecchedom 85. #e#: rekenen 86, best 332, smal 275, spelie 303. #i#: wile 42 &c. (but ichulle 81), wilneð 289. #o#: grot 93. #u#: cumeð 69, 138. #y# is _u_, except winne 161, 173 (but wunne 166, 169). #ā#: ai 53 (7), a Scandinavian word, leað 153 (? #lǣþo#, or miswritten for leið, OWScand. leiðr), askeð 75, 215, askest 68, owhwider 25 (comp. ‘ouhwuder’ AR 172/3, ?influence of #ōwer#). #ǣ{1}# is _ea_, in close agreement with B; sumdeal 284, but lasten 108, 178. #ǣnig# is ani 42, 135, 192. #ǣ{2}#: also as in B; lete 40, rodien 81, þer 246, 331, trinne 86. #ē#: fearreden 269. #ī#: bliðeliche 80, huinen 17 (comp. OWScand. hjûn). #ō#: isoð 229, sweote 291 (‘swoete’ Vesp. Psalt., Sweet, OET. 217/13). #ȳ# is _u_, written _ui_ in fuire 71, fuir 83, 87 (but fur 103). #ea# (breaking): wearnið 34, wearne 155, wearnen 63, unwearnede 157, hard 116 (5), hardes 163, 172, harm 117, harmen 290, þurf 171; _i_-umlaut, dearne 296, ferd 151. #eo#: isterret 245, self 27 (6), seluen 5 (3), but seolf 8. The _u_- _å_-umlaut of #a# is wanting, except in eawles 126; for heatel 128 heates is read. The absence of this umlaut points to Northumbrian or W. Saxon. #eo#, _u_-umlaut of #e#: heuene 220, 325, heuenliche 243, but heouene 146; after #w#, woredes 251, world 108 (7), worldlich 170. #eo#, _å_-umlaut of #e#: breke 28, breken 8, freten 96, speken 61. #eo#, _u_- _å_-umlaut of #i#: nime 147, 328, binime 11, nimeð 311, siðen 213, clepeð 38, iclepet 36, seuenfald 282, seuefald 287: for hweonene B 60, 65 T has hweðen, hwenne; hore 122. #ea# after #sć#, schome 117. #ie#: ȝef 27, ȝiueð 87, 164, ȝiue 371. ȝif 6, 12, 14. #ēa#: dedes 62, gledred 71; ȝa 216, ȝea 77 (possibly Scandinavian), great 70. #ēo#: biheld 262, depre 296, deulen 69, iseð 89, 94, seð 257, ned 211, þeosternesse 86, ho 40. #æ# + #g#: dai 29 &c., mai 10 &c. are the regular forms, but mei 303, so feir 209, 239, feirleic 272. #e# + #g#: aȝain 20 (Angl. #ongægn#), aȝaines 34, 153, but to ȝeines 196. #ea# + #h#: mihte 113, 118, 162, but mahte 84, 232. #eo# + #g#: tintrohen 264. #ie# + #h#: bisihð 332. #ā# + #w#: noht 7. #ī# + #w#: speweð 91. #ēa# + #w#: scheaweð 240, scheawde 265, ischeawet 258, scheawere 233. #ēo# + #w#: treowðe 78; treweliche 78, 206.
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