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OP I've been studying the Caterbury Tales lately and was just wondering why so many words we use now like run, fallen, drawn etc. have a 'y' in front of them in Middle English; is it to do with tense? How would it have been pronounced?
Examples:
carried = ybore
drawn = ydrawe
fallen = yfalle
led = ylad
run = yronne
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