e-caudata

plural e-caudatae

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of e caudata.

   Ligatures are very few: ae in the old uncial and e-caudata forms, st, and et.

   1940, George John Gebauer, Prolegomena to the Ars Grammatica Bonifatii, University of Chicago, page 23

   1 more example

   But one form of spelling variation that is often normalized even in modern critical editions of Old English texts is scribes’ use of ę (sometimes called “cedillated-e” or “e-caudata”), and the relative invisibility of the graph in our edited texts has no doubt disabled some potentially instructive commentary on a small aspect of scribal behavior.

   2021, Christopher M. Cain, “Some Observations on e-caudata in Old English Texts”, in Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey, editors, Old English Philology, Boydell & Brewer