early Middle English

Early Middle English is the language of the 12th and 13th centuries.

It is also a valuable source of information about the early Middle English language itself.

The consistent use of w developed in the early Middle English period, during the 12th to 13th centuries.

The poem is written in early Middle English.

In earlier Middle English all written vowels were pronounced.

The "to" infinitive was not split in Old or Early Middle English.

The medieval author Orm used this letter in three ways when writing Early Middle English.

The story became the base for one of the earliest Middle English romances King Horn, written around 1225.

Shirt and skirt are originally the same word, the former being the southern and the latter the northern pronunciation in early Middle English.

Layamon's Brut remains one of the best extant examples of early Middle English.

The second half of the 11th century is the transitional period from Late Old English to Early Middle English.

Brut by Layamon (Early Middle English)

In early Middle English, following the 11th-century Norman Conquest, 'uu' gained popularity and by 1300 it had taken wynn's place in common use.

Modern English Jesus derives from Early Middle English Iesu (attested from the 12th century).

Another, the Peterborough Chronicle, is in Old English except for the last entry, which is in early Middle English.

Taking Southern English as standard one may call everything before 1300 Early Middle English, everything after 1300 Late Middle English.

Cutty or cuttie (the diminutive form of cuttit, from Early Middle English cutte, kutte, cute "ugly") is "short" or "stumpy".

Early Middle English (1100-1300) has a largely Anglo-Saxon vocabulary (with many Norse borrowings in the northern parts of the country), but a greatly simplified inflectional system.

The grammatical relations that were expressed in Old English by the dative and locative cases are replaced in Early Middle English with prepositional constructions.

See also Middle English phonology for a more in-depth overview of the Old English sources of the Early Middle English vowels below.

The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest Middle English poems, may have been written by one Nicholas of Guildford, who is mentioned in its text.

Whereas in the West Midlands and Southern dialects of early Middle English the verb-second (V2) pattern of Old English is largely maintained.

The Poema Morale ("Conduct of life" or "Moral Ode") is an early Middle English moral poem outlining proper Christian conduct.

Middle Irish is the form of Irish used from the 10th to 12th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English.

From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: studies presented to E. G. Stanley; edited with D. Gray and T. Hoad.