- /yː/
Modern editions use ⟨ȳ⟩ to
distinguish long /yː/ from
short /y/. z /ts/ A rare
spelling for /ts/; e.g.
betst ('best') is
occasionally spelt bezt....
- Ad wæs geæfned, ond icge gold ahæfen of horde. Here-Scyldinga
betst beadorinca wæs on bæl gearu. Æt þæm ade wæs eþgesyne
swatfah syrce, swyn ealgylden...
-
listed editions. Hough, Carole; Lowe,
Kathryn A., eds. (2002). 'Lastworda
Betst':
Essays in
Memory of
Christine E. Fell with her
Unpublished Writings. Donington:...
- Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, pp. 1–15, ISBN 9780253112071 Nies,
Betst (2014). "Transatlantic Mermaids:
Literary and
Cultural Fantasies from Copenhagen...
- 1080/0013838X.2010.488846. Paul Cavill, 'Bede and Cædmon's Hymn', in
Lastworda Betst':
Essays in
Memory of
Christine E. Fell with her
Unpublished Writings, ed...
- hīehst. A few more
become totally different words: gōd ("good") → betera,
betst; yfel ("bad") → wiersa, wierrest; miċel ("much/a lot/big") → māra ("more/bigger")...
-
feaht wið Scottas, 7
aflymde þone kyng Macbeoðen, 7
ofsloh eall þæt þær
betst wæs on þam lande, 7 lædde þonan
micele herehuðe
swilce nan man ær ne begeat...
-
could be
written as "best":
Modern English "best" was
earlier written as "
betst" but had lost the
medial -t- by the
thirteenth century;
Modern English "beast"...
