1 (Lat. ol

42 OLD HIGH GERMAN PRIMER
end of a word or syllable. This o was then mostly dropped
after long vowels, as seo, se, sea, gen. sewes ; kneo, knio*
knee, gen. knewes ; garwen, to prepare, pret. garota, beside
the longer form gar (a)wita; treso, //vmwr^gen.tresewes; &c.
Final -aw > ao > 6, as uninflected form rao, ro, raw, beside
inflected form rawer, gen. rawes.
ww was treated differently according as it was general
Germanic ww (= Gothic ggw) or West Germanic ww from
wj ( 80).
1. General Germanic aww > auw > ouw which became
ou when final, as OHG. inflected form glauwer, glouwer,
exact, clear, uninflected form glau, glou, beside Gothic
adv. glaggwo, exactly ; hauwan, houwan,
to hew = Gothic
*haggwan.
General Germanic eww > iuw which became iu when
final, as bliuwan = Goth, bliggwan, to strike; triuwi =
Goth, triggws, true, faithful; iu, dat. pi. to vc,ye ; spriu, chaff,
nom. pi. spriuwir.
2. West Germanic ww from wj. In this case aww > auw
>ouw, as frauwa, frouwa, woman, from *frawjo- ; frouwen,
to rejoice, from *frawjan, beside pret. sg. frewita (41) from
*frawita. The inf. form frewen was a new formation,
made after the analogy of the pret. and the pres. 2. 3. sg.
frewis, frewit; conversely the pret. form frouwita was
made after the analogy of the inf. and i. sg. pres. and the
pres. pi.
iww (from original ewj) became iuw, as siuwen from
*sewjan, to sew, cp. OE. seowian, Goth, siujan ;
niuwi
from *newja-, cp. Goth, niujis.