O.E. ô is preserved throughout: [73] wode—good. [112] rode—blod. [118] Rome—kyrstendome. [313] done—sone.
Before g the vowel u resp. w is inserted: [145] browght—nowght. [279] browght—thowght. [2053] sought—brought.
O.E. ê is preserved: [123] kene—sene. [743] dede—sped, wede. [1849] wepe—slepe. [2055] grene—kene. [2458] be dene—wene.
O.E. î is preserved as y: [196] tyd—syd. [325] fyve—lyve. [777] wyse—deuyce. [900] ryde—syde.
O.E. û is written ou resp. ow in the French way: [921] renowne—towyn). [978] downe—renowne. [1425] nowe—rowe. [2634] mouth—couth. It has become o: [516] rome—frome (ags. rûm—from). Cf. [2641] renown—son.
O.E. eá has become e: [1929] grame—streme, Jerusalem. [2554] Jerusalem)—streme (ags. streám).
O.E. eó has changed into e: [153] be—hee: [782] fre—he. [888] tre—crystyanté. [1643] be—charité. [1861] ffree—cité.
O.E. ŷ remains y: [1361] pride—bedsyde. [1433] pryde—ryde. [1473] wyde—pride. ŷ or ê, the i-umlaut of eá or e, is found as e: [63] were—here (ags. hŷran). [235] here—were. [327] sted—yed, nede—sped. [408] yede—ned. [1552] stede—nede, indede.
3. THE INFLEXIONS.
The plural of the substantives terminates in (1) s resp. ys: [837] ryghtys—knyghtes. [1298] stonys—nonys.