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slec (Late East Anglian, Late Kentish, Vespasian Psalter Mercian, Late West Saxon)

1. alternative form of slæc

語形変化

West Saxon:

Non-West Saxon:

• The spelling slec for slæc appears seemingly only thrice: twice in slecnes in the Cleopatra Glossaries and once in slecnys in Byrhtferth's Enchiridion. Thus, all three attestations are Late West Saxon.
• Nonetheless, the tables above are an attempt to show the suspected inflected-forms of slec, and their assumed distribution is described below.
• The form slec should only have been possible:
  • 1) in Late West Saxon as the result either of Late West Saxon smoothing of ē̆a to ē̆ before velar consonants in the form sleac (seemingly from Proto-Germanic *slakwaz) or as the result of an analogical transfer from the form slecnes. The first table is meant to show hypothetical West Saxon forms, which can be deduced in two ways:
    • 1) The smoothing of sleac ought to have resulted in slec across all forms. See sleac's declension.
    • 2) The analogical replacement of slæc with slec from slecnes ought to have resulted in slec across all forms, as æ~a-alteration was transparent in West Saxon, whereas an e~a-alteration would likely not have been transparent and thus would have been untenable. Nonetheless, the table's slac- forms would have been theoretically possible.
  • 2) in Late Kentish and in Late East Anglian as the result of their (seemingly) common merger of all front-monophthongs (but /i(ː)/) into /e(ː)/ (respective of length),
  • 3) and in Vespasian Psalter Mercian as the result of Second-Fronting of /æ/ to /e/.
• The differences among the inflected forms are as follows:
  • Where West Saxon permits the sequence slace(-), this descends from a proto-form *slæce(-). West Saxon was unique (among all dialects) in that it permitted a-restoration in this environment in adjective-declensions, whereas the other dialects discussed on this page shifted that *slæce(-) form to slece(-). Dialects not discussed on this page (such as Northumbrian) kept that form at slæce(-).
  • Where the Non-West Saxon table shows the three different stems (slac-, slæc-, and slec-), the slec- form arose from analogy, and the slæc- form arose from Second-Fronting of /ɑ/ to /æ/ in Vespasian Psalter Mercian. The slac- form remained in Kentish and presumably in East Anglian.