long itself alone has mostly the Dorset sound (2.)
_eä_ (1, 4) for _ea_, with the _a_ unsounded as lead, mead, leäd, meäd.
_eä_ (1, 3) for the long _a_, 3, as in lade, made, leäde, meäde.
_ea_ of one sound (2) as meat.
_e_ is put in before s after st, as nestes, nests, vistes, fists.
The two sundry soundings of _ea_ 2 and 3 do not go by our spelling
_ea_ for both, but have come from earlier forms of the words.
After a roof letter it may stay as it is, a roof letter, as madden,
madd'n; rotten, rott'n. So with _en_ for him, tell en, tell'n.
The _en_ sometimes at the end of words means not, as bisse'n, bist not;
coust'en, cous'n, could'st not; I didd'n, I did not; diss'n, didst not;
hadd'n, had not; muss'n, must not; midd'n, mid not;
should'n, should not; 'tis'n, 'tis not; would'n, would not.
_en_--not _èn_--in Dorset, as well as in book English, as an ending of
some kinds of words often, in running talk, loses the _e_, and in
some cases shifts into a sound of the kind of the one close before it.
After a lip-letter it becomes a lip-letter _m_, as Rub en, Rub-him;
rub'n, rub'm; oven, ov'm; open, op'n op'm, in Dorset mostly oben,
ob'n, ob'm. So after _f'_, deafen, deaf'n, deaf m, heaven, heav'n,
heav'm, in Dorset sometimes heab'm. zeven, zeb'n, zeb'm.
After a throat-letter it becomes a throat one, _ng_, as token,
tok'n, tok'ng.
_[=e]_ (2).
_Eegrass_, aftermath.
_Eltrot_, Eltroot, cowparsley (_Myrrhis_). [Elt is Freisic, robustus,
vegetus, as cowparsley is among other kinds.] _See_ Bibber.
_Emmet_, an ant.
_Emmetbut_, an anthill.
_En_, him; A.-Saxon, _hine_.
_Èn_, for ing, zingèn, singing.
_Eve_, to become wet as a cold stone floor from thickened steam in
some weather.
_Evet_, eft, newt.
_Exe_, an axle.