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 edition. Excerpt: ...English, short vowels were lengthened before a sjngje medial consonant, as in hasel, naked, weasel, in all of which the vowel was originally short. Lengthening also took place before certain consonant combinations, as in old, field, child, find, hound, beard, board, climb. In some of these the Middle English ...
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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 edition. Excerpt: ...English, short vowels were lengthened before a sjngje medial consonant, as in hasel, naked, weasel, in all of which the vowel was originally short. Lengthening also took place before certain consonant combinations, as in old, field, child, find, hound, beard, board, climb. In some of these the Middle English long vowel later became a diphthong. In the middle period of English also, similar lengthenings occurred in words borrowed from French, as change, danger, bounce, ounce, count, amount. Late lengthenings have occurred in such words-as all and small. 246. A special kind of lengthening is due to the vocalization of a following consonant. This is called cojnpensa-torv_engthening. Examples of an early lengthening of this" sort are goose, tooth, in which the original short vowel was followed by n. Compare German Cans 'goose.' Compensatory lengthening also accounts for a long vowel which later became a diphthong, as in night, light, bright. MONOPHTHONGING AND DlPHTHONGING 247. Diphthongs have become Monophthongs, or simple vowels, /by the loss of one element. For example, rule was once pronounced with the diphthong iu instead of the simple vowel u, as at present. Similarly, all Old Englisl diphthongs became monophthongs in Middle English times. Owing to this the Old English diphthong eo, for instance, has had the same development as the simple vowel e. Compare deep OE. deop with feet OE. fit. On the other hand, simple vowels have also become diphthongs, as in find and found ME. finden, funden. Sometimes the second element of a diphthong has developed from a consonant by vocalization, 236. Thus the Middle English diphthong ai sprang from OE. seg, as in dai(y) OE. daeg. In one of these two ways all Modern English diphthongs came into existence, ...
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