Re[2]: [tied] OE "afor"

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 27992
Date: 2003-12-05

At 7:15:08 PM on Thursday, December 4, 2003, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> At the end of the OE period, however, <e> came to be the
> favoured spelling even after back vowels.

Most of the unnormalized OE that I've seen has been
onomastic, but even there the tendency is quite noticeable
in patronymics, with <sunu> giving way to <sune>.

Brian