[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
E an O me, E an O an O me V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.
e II, 217, (Child #76 A) (Child #76 B) 24: ae, only.
ea V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.
eaen V, 267, 4: even.
eaght the, the eighth.
ealky, elky, eke a, ylk a, ilka V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each (one).
ean V, 165, (Child #294 A) 2: eyes. See ee.
ear I, 395, (Child #43 B) (Child #43 C) 1; 480, 54: early.
ear, eer ever.
eare, ere, ayre heir.
eare v., I, 15, (Child #2 A) (Child #2 B) 12: plough.
earn V, 115, (Child #279 app) 6: curdle.
eartly II, 494, l: earthly.
eased III, 61, (Child #117 A) 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.
eased we V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.
easer IV, 315, (Child #235 C) (Child #235 D) 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See ezar.
easterling (born), V, 54, (Child #271 B) 3, 4 (in A, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.
eathe III, 408, 33: easy.
eather V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.
eay, eayn V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See ee.
edder-flowe IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.
ee III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 9; 11, K: eye. Pl. een, eeen, II, 158 f., (Child #69 A) 5, 8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See ean, eay, eghne, eyen.
ee (of a cup), IV, 221, (Child #221 C) (Child #221 D) 9: may be eye, top, brim.
ee the table ee, II, 409, (Child #101 B) 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be nonsense; edge does not suit, b, the printed copy, has play.
ee (A.S. ege, O. Eng. eje, eie, etc.), IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 15: awe; an unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be better; I have not found ee). The Campbell Manuscript has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.
ee-bree III, 11, K; IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 5: eye-brow.
een IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 13: one.
een v., III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same value.
eenin IV, 169, P 1: evening.
eerie, eiry I, 342, (Child #39 A) 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, (Child #110 E) 39; IV, 175, N (Child #214 N) 5; 368, G 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.
eft eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.
eftsones III, 68, (Child #117 A) 238: hereafter, another time.
eghne I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.
eh IV, 612, 11: exclamation of grief.
eight, the eight I, 55, (Child #4 A) (Child #4 B) 9; 56, B 10; C 6, 11: eighth.
eihte I, 244, (Child #23 A) 11: possession, valuable thing.
eild III, 162, (Child #134 A) 46: age.
ein I, 134, (Child #10 M) (Child #10 N) (Child #10 O) 13: een, evening.
eiry See eerie.
eisin IV, 331 b, (Child #236 app) 2: serve.
eke also. At I, 133, L (Child #10 L) 1, eke ... eke seems to be wrongly used for either ... or.
eke a III, 298, (Child #161 A) 57: each (one). See ealky.
elbouthe I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).
eldelike I, 334, 5: elderly.
eldern, eldren, eldrin I, 350, (Child #39 G) 12, 13; II, 20, (Child #58 A) 2; 26, 2; 27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.
eldrige, elridge (hill, king), II, 68 f ., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36 = Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the character of the ellor-gast family in Beówulf (spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems in no way extra-human, elric hour, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): hour when elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick's hill, II, 62, (Child #61 app) 8, 10, etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See elrick.
element I, 286, (Child #30 A) 44: air, sky.
elephant III, 211, (Child #148 A) 2: a species of scabious is so called, according to Halliwell.
elfin, elphin, elphan n. and adj., I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV, 456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, (Child #39 D) 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.
Elfins the, I, 346, (Child #39 D) 15: fairy-land. See elfin.
elfish n., I, 343, (Child #39 A) (Child #39 B) 15: elf.
elflyn of the elves.
Elizium V, 158, (Child #292 A) 16: Elysian.
elky See ealky.
ell, ill, ull v., will.
ellish III, 481, (Child #187 B) (Child #187 C) 9: ellis, ells, (h may well be dropped.)
elphan, elphin n. and adj. See elfin.
elrick, elritch adj., II, 63, (Child #61 app) 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick's, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.
embowered pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.
eme III, 296, (Child #161 A) 26: uncle, emys, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 38: uncle's.
-en, -n, -yn sign of plural of verb, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 9; II, 5 b, (Child #54 D) 3; 54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, (Child #115 A) 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.
end, en end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies, b, 1, c, 1; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, (Child #240 C) 18: to an end.
-end termination of the present participle, sighend, I, 55 f., B (Child #4 B) 7, 9.
endres daye þis, I, 326, (Child #37 C) 1: the other day.
eneuch, enew I, 102, (Child #7 C) (Child #7 D) 5; III, 318, (Child #163 A) 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, (Child #208 A) 8; 384, 8: enough.
enlured III, 36, (Child #116 app) 45: allured (which is the word in b).
enter plea att my iollye III, 278, (Child #158 A) (Child #158 B) 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollyte. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.
enterprise v., I, 411, (Child #45 A) 9; III, 230, (Child #154 A) 70: undertake.
entertain III, 153, (Child #131 A) 18: take into service.
envye III, 296 f., (Child #161 A) 12, so: ill-will, hostility, spite.
ere V, 300, 3: eer, ever.
ere, eare, ayre n., heir.
ere v., heir.
ere II, 216, (Child #76 A) 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.
ere syne II, 362, (Child #96 C) (Child #96 D) 34: ere then, before that.
erlis I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle's (herons, yrons in other texts).
erlish I, 355, (Child #39 I) 49: elrish, elvish.
ermeline ermine.
ern IV, 490, 12: iron.
-es, -is, -ys, -us preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, (Child #5 A) 52; II, 25, (Child #58 F) (Child #58 G) 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, (Child #5 C) 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.
esk I, 355, so: newt. See ask.
ettled IV, 47, (Child #196 C) (Child #196 D) 2: purposed.
even cloth I, 324, (Child #37 A) (Child #37 B) 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.
even down IV, 110, (Child #206 A) 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, 124, B (Child #281 B) 14: perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).
even forward I, 324, (Child #37 A) (Child #37 B) 3: straight forward.
even up I, 305, (Child #33 G) 7: straight up.
evening-mass II, 168, A, (Child #70 A) 4: a religious service at the end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).
euery syde III, 75, (Child #117 A) 398: each side of.
euerych, euerichone, euerechone, euerilkon, everlke ane I, 334, 5; III, 22, (Child #116 A) 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.
evidents IV, 40 b: title-deeds.
evyll adv., III, 26, (Child #116 A) 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, (Child #117 A) 429: ill walk.
ew-bught See bucht.
ewer IV, 19, (Child #192 B) (Child #192 C) 8: dug, udder.
exaltre III, 90 b: axletree.
examine II, 58, (Child #61 A) 15: put you to test.
earite II, 125, B 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, B 22: amended to sight under the supposition that exit must be impossible.
exoner IV, 307, (Child #233 C) 42: exonerate.
ey I, 415 b: egg.
eye (cote with one eye), III, 360, (Child #168 app) 117: window?
eyen, eyne I, 472, (Child #53 F) (Child #53 G) 29; III, 74, (Child #117 A) 359: eyes. See ee.
eylde het the III, 112, (Child #121 A) 62: yield, requite thee for it.
eylyt I, 241 f., (Child #22 A) 5, 7: aileth.
eyre pl., III, 113, (Child #121 A) 70: years.
ezar II, 271, (Child #83 E) 17; 273, 23: maple. See easer, masar.
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