Part 10 (1/2)
On the contrary, the ternifying want; as, worthless, witless, heartless, joyless, careless, helpless Thus comfort, comfortless; sap, sapless
Privation or contrariety is very often denoted by the participle un prefixed to many adjectives, or in before words derived from the Latin; as pleasant, unpleasant; wise, unwise; profitable, unprofitable, patient, impatient Thus unworthy, unhealthy, unfruitful, unuseful, and lish privative is un; but as we often borrow tro privation, as inefficacious, impious, indiscreet, the inseparable particles un and in have fallen into confusion, frole thelish, as untrue, untruth, untaught, unhandsome
Un is prefixed to all participles , unaided, undelighted, unendeared
Un ought never to be prefixed to a participle present to , but a privation of habit, as unpitying
Un is prefixed to lish termination, as unfertileness, unperfectness, which, if they have borrowed terminations, take in or im, as infertility, imperfection; uncivil, incivility; unactive, inactivity
In borrowing adjectives, if we receive them already compounded, it is usual to retain the particle prefixed, as indecent, inelegant, improper; but if we borrow the adjective, and add the privative particle, we coallant
The prepositive particles dis and nify almost the same as un; yet dis rather imports contrariety than privation, since it answers to the Latin preposition de Mis insinuates some errour, and for the most part may be rendered by the Latin words male or perperarace, to dishonour, to disgrace; to deign, to disdeign; chance, hap, mischance, mishap; to take, to mistake; deed, misdeed; to use, to misuse; to employ, to misemploy, to apply, to misapply
Words derived fronification; as distinguish, distinguo; detract, detraho; defame, defamo; detain, detineo
The termination ly added to substantives, and sometimes to adjectives, forreeiantly, giantlike; earth, earthly; heaven, heavenly; world, worldly; God, Godly; good, goodly
The same ternification; as, beautiful, beautifully; sweet, sweetly; that is, in a beautiful ree of sweetness
The termination ish added to adjectives, imports diminution; and added to substantives, ireenish; white, whitish; soft, softish; a thief, thievish; a wolf, wolfish; a child, childish
We have forh not frequent; as a hill, a hillock; a cock, a cockrel; a pike, a pickrel; this is a French ter; this is a German termination: a lamb, a lambkin; a chick, a chicken; a man, a manikin; a pipe, a pipkin; and thus Halkin, whence the patronymick, Hawkins; Wilkin, Thomkin, and others
Yet still there is another for the sound itself, especially of vowels, as there is a for it; and that soe of the letters, as of their pronunciation; as, sup, sip, soop, sop, sippet, where, besides the extenuation of the vowel, there is added the French termination et; top, tip; spit, spout; babe, baby; booby, ???pa??; great pronounced long, especially if with a stronger sound, grea-t; little, pronounced long lee-tle; ting, tang, tong, ireater sounds; and so in jingle, jangle, tingle, tangle, and many other made words
Much however of this is arbitrary and fanciful, depending wholly on oral utterance, and therefore scarcely worthy the notice of Wallis
Of concrete adjectives arethe ter character or qualities: as white, whiteness; hard, hardness; great, greatness; skilful, skilfulness, unskilfulness; Godhead, hthood, priesthood, likelihood, falsehood
There are other abstracts, partly derived from adjectives, and partly from verbs, which are fore being soth; broad, breadth; wide, width, deep, depth; true, truth; warm, warmth; dear, dearth; slow, slowth; ht; young, youth; and so moon, month
Like these are sorowth; mow, later mowth, after mowth; commonly spoken and written later math, after math; steal, stealth; bear, birth, rue, ruth; and probably earth, froht; draw, draught
These should rather be written flighth, frighth, only that custom will not suffer h to be twice repeated
The saht, wreathe, wrath, broth, froth, breath, sooth, worth, light, wight, and the like, whose primitives are either entirely obsolete, or seldom occur Perhaps they are derived from fey or foy, spry, reak, bre, fry, bray, say, work
So in shi+p, ishi+p, wardshi+p, guardianshi+p, partnershi+p, stewardshi+p, headshi+p, lordshi+p
Thus worshi+p, that is, worthshi+p; whence worshi+pful, and to worshi+p
So in dom, rick, wick, do especially denote dodom, dukedom, earldom, princedom, popedom, Christendom, freedom, wisdoe are plainly French ter the, except in words derived frolish often long trains of words allied by theirand derivation; as, to beat, a bat, batoon, a battle, a beetle, a battledore, to batter, batter, a kind of glutinous co different bodies into one nification, and perhaps derived from the Latin batuo Thus take, touch, tickle, tack, tackle; all ii, tactum
From two are formed twain, twice, twenty, twelve, twins, twine, twist, twirl, twig, twitch, twinge, between, betwixt, twilight, twibil