Strong to weak
- ake 'ache', ook, aken
- bake, book, baken
- chide, chid (with vowel from plural for expected 'chode'), chidden
- cleave, clove, cloven (also clave, cleft)
- creep, crope, cropen
- crow, crew, crown
- glide, glode (also glad), glidden
- help, halp, holpen
- laugh, low, laughen
- lose, lose (to rhyme with rose), losen (but weak from OE)
- melt, molt, molten
- mow, mew, mown
- shape, shope, shapen
- win, wan, wun (why not won?)
- writhe, wrothe, writhen
Some remarkable cases
- catch < Fr. cacher 'hide'
(caught by analogy to
reach, raught;
teach, taught)
- dig < Fr. diguer < Fr. digue 'dike' < Gmc. root for 'dike'
(dug by analogy to stuck)
- strive < Fr. estriver 'contend' (assimilated to
Class 1, write)