These following, as is shown by the Saxon, ought to take -ed rather than -en : Hew. I Rive. I Show. Shape, shave, and swell were in Saxon moulded, and thence took -en. There is a set of time-words which were weak, but are now endingless in their mark-word shape. They ended with a roof-penning -t or -d, and the roof-penning of the ending -ed ran at last into the roof-penning of the stems in the way shown on p. 22, and their markword shapes are the same as those for bygone time. One-sounded root time-words are mostly endingless in their mark-word shape :— 47 WORDS OF SPEECH-CRAFT, AND OTHERS, ENGLISHED. WITH SOME NOTES. Ablative (fromness case). The case of the source of the time-taking. Abnormal. Unshapely, queer of shape, odd. Abrade. To forfray, forfret. For for- see Forhereafter. Absist. Forbear. Absorb. Forsoak. Absolute. Checkless, freed or loosened from checks. Absolve. To forfree-en, forloosen. Abstract (in speech-craft). Unmatterly, not of matterly form. Accelerate. To onquicken, quicken. Accent. Word-strain, a strain of the voice, higher or lower, on a breath-sound. Accessary. A bykeeper, deedmate. Accidence. The forshapenings of words for case, tale, time, mood, or person. Accusative (case). End-case, the case of a thing which is the end or aim of a time-taking. Acephalous. Headless. Acoustics. Sound-lore, hearing-lore. Active. Sprack (Wessex), doingsome, doughty. Active (time-taking). One that can reach from the time-taker to another thing; as, 'to strike.' John can strike another thing. Acute. Sharp or high in sound. Adjective. Thing-markword, mark-word. Adulation. Flaundering, glavering. Adverb. An under-markword. Adversative. Thwartsome. Aerology. Air-lore. Aeronaut. Airfarer. Affirmation. Foraying, or a foryeaing, not a for naying; as, 'Yes, he is.' Agglutinate. To upcleam, to cleam up. Aggregate. The main, whole. Allative (case). A name given by some writers to that of a thing at which the time-taking is aimed (the aim case). Alienate. To unfrienden. Allegory. A forlikening. Alliteration. Mate-pennings (i.e. Breath-pennings). All-án, all-one :—‘Nen manniska buta God al ena.-W. Friesic. 'No man, but God all-one (alone.)' Altercation. A brangle, brangling, brawling. Ambiguous. Twy-sided, twy-meaning :—' Alfred was struck as he was walking with a stout stick.' Struck or walking with a stick? (twy-sided.) Those shoes were made before the man that made them.' Before in time, or before not behind? Amicable. Friendly:-'We have lived in amicable relations' (friendly, in friendliness). gills. Amphibious. Twy-breath'd, twy-aired: by lungs and Amphibology. A twy-casting, a wording of two meanings. Amphimacrum. Long sidelings, long end-sounds. A foot (in verse) of one short sound between two long ones, or of a low sound between two high ones; as, Tó and fró. Amputate. Forcarve. Anachronism. A mistiming. Anagram. A letter-shuffling; as, out of 'name' to make 'mane,' or of 'march' to make 'charm.' 3214 12 34 Analysis. A forloosening or unmaking of a word or wording, or any thing, into its sundry clear pieces. Anastrophe. A word-shifting; as, 'Fasten it up well,' 'Fasten it well up.' 'He brought back the horse,' or 'He brought the horse back.' 'There is none to dispute my right,' or 'My right there is none to dispute.' Anastrophe affords a case Of the shifting of words from place to place. E Antanaclasis. Twy-hitting on a word :-'If shape that was which had no shape.' 'It is the best art that conceals art,` By antanaclasis is heard Aloud once more a former word. Anodyne. Pain-dunting, pain-dilling. (Dill, -n, to dunt, to soothe.) Anomalous. Odd-shaped, oddly shapen. Antepenultimate (breath-sound). Last but two. Anticipate. To foreween, foretake. Antique. Ancient, foreold, ereold. Old for things in being, forcold or ereold for things forgone. Antithesis. An atsetting. Antonomasia. Name-shunning, the marking of a man by other words than his name; as, 'The honourable member for A.,' instead of 'Mr. B.' Apheresis. Foredocking of a word; as, pothecary for apothecary, nob for knob. Aphorisms. Thought-cullings. Apocope. send for send-an. End-lopping; as mortal for mortalis, |