Talk:liþe

Tea room discussion
While wading through the cognates of lind in Deutsches Wörterbuch, I noticed that the Old English word is spelt lyðe (Angelsachsisch ebenso lyðe = OE idem lyðe ). I skip these cognates usually, but this time I was surprised by the discrepancy and given that the entry's main contributor is User:Drago, I would like to request someone who is conversant with that language to check whether it is ð or þ. Bogorm 21:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Perhaps About Old English might be illuminating on this topic. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 21:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The OED Online gives only &lt;ð&gt; and &lt;th&gt; spellings, but a number of its quotations have it with &lt;þ&gt;. —Ruakh TALK 02:30, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The two letters are semantically identical. We use thorns here, but the Anglo-Saxons used both interchangeably, with no apparent rhyme or reason.  Ƿidsiþ 15:22, 10 January 2009 (UTC)