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Wallop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Kenneth Jackson
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Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 49 , March 1939 , pp. 105 - 106
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1939

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1 For the borrowing of early Welsh nasal v, spelt m, as pure m in Anglo-Saxon, cf. Caedmon (7th cent.) and Elmet (8th cent.), both from Welsh names with what was probably already pronounced nasal v by this time (older m). The nearest the English could get to this peculiar sound was evidently a simple m.