 Chaucer's time ended in e originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first passed from the broader sound of a to the thinner sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute.  Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual - Page 472by Eleanor Prescott Hammond - 1908 - 579 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...find that a great number of those words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pronounced, why was it added ? From the time that it... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...find that a great number of those •words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pronounced, why was it added ? From the time that it... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...find that a great number of those words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pro(69) This is owing to the Saxons not having left us... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...find that a great number of those words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pro(69) This is owing to the Saxons not having left us... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 318 pages
...find that a great number of those words which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. " We may also presume, that in words terminated, according to the Saxon form, in en, such as the infinitive... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 330 pages
...find that a great number of those words which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first...thinner sound of e feminine, and not at once from a toe mute. " We may also presume, that in words terminated, according to the Saxon form, in en, such... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1848 - 564 pages
...find that a great number of those words which in Chaucer's time ended in c, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first...thinner sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to c mute. " We may also presume, that in words terminated, according to the Saxon form, in en, such as... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1851 - 604 pages
...find that a great number of those words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of e feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pronounced, why was it added ! From the time that it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...we find that a great number of those words which in Chaucer's time ended in e originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume that our ancestors first...from the broader sound of a to the thinner sound of c feminine, and not at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pronounced,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 650 pages
...find that a great number of those words, which in Chaucer's time ended in e, originally ended in a, we may reasonably presume, that our ancestors first...sound of a to the thinner sound of e feminine, and njt at once from a to e mute. Besides, if the final e in such words was not pronounced, why was it... | |
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