So the West Saxon forms, healdan, sealt, healf, are found in the Northumbrian Gospels as halda, salt, half, and in Gothic, O. of the Chronicle alle, onwald are found as well as ealle, onweald, while in Ælfric's Homilies they are regularly written in the latter form. ![]() Thus in the translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care and in the Parker MS. This change does not occur to the same extent in the earlier specimens, and seems not to occur at all in the Northumbrian dialect, or in the kindred languages. L In the later specimens of the West Saxon dialect those words in which the vowel a immediately preceded a combination of consonants beginning with 1 are generally found to have undergone a change which was represented by writing ea instead of a. ![]() ![]() Note: This page is for systems/browsers with Unicode ® support and fonts spanning the Unicode 3 character set relevant to An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.
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