A History of English Sounds From the Earliest Period, With Full Word-Lists

Henry Sweet

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The most im- portant of these is, that the second cons, must be voiced: vowels are never lengthened before nc, nt etc, O. writing drannc, drinnkenn, stunnt, sallt, Aellpenn etc. Lengthening is also regularly barred by back-shortening : thus 0. writes did, but allderrmann, elldre cp, cAUd, but pi cAilldre, The --en of the ptc has, however, no back-shortening influence : cp nngenn \ findenn with sungenn,fundenn. The length both of the infln.
and ptc is really due to the influence of the monosylla...bic preterites /a«rf etc. Those verbs which have no monosyllabic prt keep their vowels short throughout : brinngenn (prt broAAte)^ winndwenn, senndenn, wenndenn, which last sometimes has a ^ The foUowing examples are from 0., unlesi lome other reference is given.
Digitized by Google 170 HISTORY OP ENGLISH SOUNDS.
single ft, which may be a mere error, blendenn 'blind' has a long vowel by the analogy of blind, stanndenn has a short vowel because its prt stdd, though monosyllabic, does not end in nd.

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