-
witan was
noted by
contemporary sources as
having the
singular power to
ceosan to cynige, 'to
choose the king' from
amongst the
extended royal family....
- pī "I drink" pāsi "he swallows" *ǵews- "to test, to taste"
choose (< OE
ċēosan) Goth
kiusan "to prove, to test",
kausjan "taste"; OHG
kiosan "choose" gustus...
- paradigms,
known as
grammatischer Wechsel. For example, the Old
English verb
ceosan 'choose' had the past
plural form
curon and the past
participle (ge)coren...
- mōna > moon; OE sōna > soon; OE fōd > food /fuːd/; OE dōn > to do OE ēo OE
ċēosan > to choose; OE sċēotan > to
shoot (+r) /uːr/ > /oːr/ > GA /ɔr/, RP /ɔː/...
- /ɛː/ and /ɔː/, respectively. The
diphthongs /eo̯/ and /eːo̯/ (as in OE
ċēosan 'to choose', frēond 'friend', and sċēotan 'to shoot')
respectively simplified...
- English: wesan, wæs – wǣron ("to be")
Modern English: was – were Old English:
cēosan, cēas –
curon coren ("to choose") Old English: frēosan, frēas –
fruron froren...
-
eorla gehƿẏlcun, / ðonn[e] fæstlice flæsc onginneþ, / hraƿ colian,
hrusan ceosan / blac to gebeddan;
bleda gedreosaþ, / ƿẏnna geƿitaþ, ƿera gesƿicaþ. " ᛠ...
-
English (OE)
distinguished past
singular and past
plural forms of the verb
ceosan, ceas and
curon respectively, but
these were
leveled to give a
single Modern...
-
alternate with each
other in ways
reminiscent of allophones, for example:
ċēosan [ˈtʃeːozan] ("to choose") vs.
curon [ˈkuron] ("chose",
plural form) ġēotan...
