Talk:List of Old English Words in the OED

Aa
Great list. I will be looking it over often.

The word aa stood out to me for its spelling, so i had to look into it. Old English had ea and Old Norse had á. I'm guessing that á would have become o, but loud-shifts from Old English are a slippery thing to me. I went over to Behind the Name looking for names that grew out of ea and found but Ayton (a Scottish/northern stead-name), Eaton (a widespread English stead-name), and Nye (which i cannot reckon out). Anyhow, why not ea? --Schreiter 17:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)