Studies in Philology (Volume 6-11 (1910-1913))

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... once (otherwise lorde), in pousant and often in the past participle of.weak verbs, t and d interchange in conforte and conforde. We do not find sente for sende. Cf. ten Brink, Sprache, 170 and Smith, Specimens of Middle Scots, xxvii. Final t or d of the past participle of weak verbs is often written th, as is the final tin a large number of words: wrooth, weddethe, wethe, withe renthe, feeth, and also medially: thou%thus, etc. These are without doubt merely orthographic variants. K, Eolle rimes Judith: vrrilt:Judith: David (Prick of Conscience, ed, Morris, xxiv). Numerous instances of th for t without apparent cause may easily be cited. In one word, vewe, OE / appears as v initially, originally from the East Southern dialect. This v was introduced in a few words in the London dialect (Sweet, Short Historical English Grammar, 189), and was found once by Morsbach in the London documents (Schriftsprache, 103, 158). No instance is known to me of this writing in a pure Northern text. Initial / for p is found in furste. Cf. Varnhagen, Anzeiger fur deutsches Altertum, ix, 179. Anm. Note the writing semfne for sefen. ng is reduced to n in lenthe, st(r)enpe, everlastanly, kyndom (also hyngdom) and in a few past participles. This may be merely graphic; or it may be a reproduction of the pronunciation: n for rj. Murray (Dialects, 53, 124, 534) takes the dropping of g before th as a characteristic of Middle Scotch, "-spellings which are found in the Northern dialect since the thirteenth century." Cf. Smith, Specimens of Middle Scots, xxv, and Morsbach, Schriftsprache, 100, 109. Initial g is never written y. There is no case of-cht for-jt or-jtfA.. OE h is regularly retained. It is dropped in a few words (evenkyng) and is present inorganically in heerly. OE p, z=th an...