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Equations All + one = alone An + eke + name = nickname An + ewt = newt Bere + arn = barn Bride + ale = bridal Bride + gome = bridegome ___> bridegroom * By + out = but Cant ("Kent") + ware + burrough = Canterbury Day's + Eye = daisy Fourteen + night = fortnight God + be + with + you = goodbye God + sib = gossip Good + spell = gospel Gore + leek = garlic Here + barrow = harbour Here + i + taw = heriot Lief + man = leman Loaf + dey = lady Loaf + ward = lord Lode + thew = lottew Lore + thew = lorrew Mere + maid = mermaid Ne + o = no Ne + o + wight = naught Ne'er + a = nary Nigh + bour = neighbour Nose + thirl = nostril O + i + whether = either O + like * = each O + wight = aught On + by + out = about On + even = anent On + one = anon Seven + night = sennight Shield + trum = shelter Shire + reeve = sheriff So + like = such Stale + worth = stalwart Stone + yell = staniel Sty + rope = stirrup Sty + ward = steward Twi + winter = twinter Were + eld = world Were + mood = wermood ___> wormwood * Were + wolf = werwolf Who + like = which Wife + man = woman Negations* Ne "not" and ne-words, with examples. Ne: I) Not (precedes verbs) I ne love thee. II) neither...nor I ne seek ne fame ne fortune Nam: (ne + am): I nam impressed. Nart (ne + art) Thou nart very smart. Nis (ne + is) He nis aware of it. Nas (ne + was) There nas need for it. Nare (ne + are) We nare afraid of anything Nere (ne + were) They nere here. Nave: (ne + have) I nave a clue. Nas: (ne + has) He nas their votes. Nast: (ne + hast) Thou nast that thou wishest to have. Nad: (ne + had) I nad a chance with thee. Nill: (ne + will) Will he or nill he? Nould: (ne + would) They nould change their minds. Nit: (ne + wit): He shall nit a thing about it. Not (ne + wot) He not what he ought to do. Nist: (ne + wist) I nist what it meant. Nany: (ne + any) Nany men were there. Nalls: (ne + alls) He was swift, nalls slothful. *-Gome of bridegome became altered to -groom under the influence of the word groom "boy, young man". *Like originally had a -ch- sound instead of a -k-sound, retained in the words each, such, which, in which it became absorbed in early times. It is also retained in the noun form, lich "body, corpse". The pronunciation of like with a k-sound as we are familiar with today came from or under the influence of the Old Norse pronunciation of the word. *Wermood became altered to wormwood most likely from similarity of sound, and because wormwood was used as a vermifuge. *The examples created here are observant to the "rule" of not using double negatives. However, traditionally they were very often used with more than one negative. Since originally more than one negative wasn't at all thought of as cancelling out negativeness, but rather as further emphasizing it. |
