Re: RV: Old English
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 3:15 |
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> Note the vocalism: _sceadu_, not _scadu_ (AFAIK, occurring
> in all OE dialects; Ms. Higley could correct me)-clearly
> with a palatalizing effect of _sc_
Ms. Who? It's only us Caveses around these parts. ;-)
Ms. Caves would say that there is a paucity of other dialects
besides West Saxon. We have the _sc_ in Anglian, preserved
for us in an 8th cent. version of Caedmon's Hymn, but I couldn't
tell you offhand how it was pronounced. The "til" suggests
Scandinavian influence, and I suspect further influence may
have yielded an /sk/ pronunciation instead of an /S/. But
that is pure conjecture, and I may be mistaken.
WS A
Nu sculon herigean Nu scylun hergan
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He aerest sceop He aerist scop
eorthan bearnum aelda barnum
heofon to hrofe, heben til hrofe
halig Scyppend haleg Scepen
From the Moore MS of the _Historia Ecclesiastica_, Bede.
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Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an.
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from _The Gospel of Bastet_
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