o.
O.N. o
remains o: boldin, bolle,
brod,
costlyk,
loft, rock, etc.
O.N. o
+ g > ow in low.
u.
O.N. u
generally remains u: bught, buller,
clunk,
cunnand, lucken, ugg, clubbit,
drucken,
skugg. The sound of u in O.N.,
however,
was approximately that of oo in “foot.”
O.N. u
> [-u] in drook.
y.
O.N. y
always becomes i, written i, y:
big,
birr,
filly, flit, trig, wyndland,
gylmyr.
The O.N. y had approximately the value
of
Germ. ue.
ae.
O.N. ae > e in ettle.
oe
O.N. oe
> e in gleg, glegy, appears as
u in
slut.
O.N. oe,
u-v-umlaut of a, becomes ae,
written
a:
daggit, ragweed, tangle.
O.N. oe,
u-umlaut of a in originally open syllable,
like
open a, > [-e] in spale.
Hence u-umlaut does not appear in loanwords.
ja (ia).
O.N. ja
> a in assle-tooth, harn, starn.
>
e in sker and stern.
joe (ioe).
O.N. joe
> a in tarn.
O.N. joe
> i before r in firth, gyrth
(gjoerth),
gyrthin.
LONG VOWELS.
[-a].
O.N. [-a]
regularly > [-e], written a, ai,
ay,
ae,
ei (?): baith, blae, bray,
braith,
fra,
frae, lait, craik, ra,
saikless,
spay,
etc.
O.N. [-a]
+ g > aw, awch, aigh, aich,
awsome,
law, sb. law, adj. lawch, beside
laigh
and laich in N. Sco.
O.N. [-a]
+ l > ow in chowk (O.N. kjalki).
[-e].
O.N. [-e] remains in ser,
seir.
[-e] > [-ae], written a,
in fallow.
O.N. [-e] before tt > i,
written y, in tytt.
Cp. titt in W.Norse dial.