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AN OUTLINE
OF
ENGLISH SPEECH-CRAFT
BY
WILLIAM BARNES, B.D.
‘Præsens Angli sermonis forma
magis magisque recedit a stirpe
antiquâ’—Lexicon Frisicum, by
Justus Halbertsma, under
‘Dunsi’
LONDON
C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1878
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(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved)
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FORE-SAY.
This little book was not written to win prize or praise;
but it is put forth as one small trial, weak though it may
be, towards the upholding of our own strong old Anglo-Saxon
speech, and the ready teaching of it to purely
English minds by their own tongue.
Speech was shapen of the breath-sounds of speakers,
for the ears of hearers, and not from speech-tokens
(letters) in books, for men’s eyes, though it is a great
happiness that the words of man can be long holden and
given over to the sight; and therefore I have shapen
my teaching as that of a speech of breath-sounded
words, and not of lettered ones; and though I have, of
course, given my thoughts in a book, for those whom
my voice cannot reach, I believe that the teaching
matter of it may all be put forth to a learner’s mind, and
readily understood by him, without book or letters. So,
for consonants and vowels, as letters, I put breath-pennings
and free-breathings, and these names would be
good for any speech, of the lettering of which a learner
might know nothing. On the grounds here given, I[iv]
have not begun with orthography, the writing or spelling
of our speech, or of any other, while as yet the teaching
or learning of the speech itself is unbegun.
I have tried to teach English by English, and so have
given English words for most of the lore-words (scientific
terms), as I believe they would be more readily and more
clearly understood, and, since we can better keep in
mind what we do than what we do not understand, they
would be better remembered. There is, in the learning
of that charmingly simple and yet clear speech, pure
Persian, now much mingled with Arabic, a saddening
check; for no sooner does a learner come to the time-words
than he is told that he should learn, what is then
put before him, an outline of Arabic Grammar. And there
are tokens that, ere long, the English youth will want an
outline of the Greek and Latin tongues ere he can well
understand his own speech.
The word grammar itself seems a misused word, for
grapho is to write, and graphma, worn into gramma,
means a writing, and the word grammatikē meant, with
the Greeks, booklore or literature in the main, and not
speech-teaching alone.
Whether my lore-words are well-chosen is a question
for the reader’s mind. I have, for better or worse, treated
the time-words, and nearly all the parts of speech, in a
new way. I have clustered up the time-words as weak
or strong on their endings, rather than on their headings,
which had nothing to do with their forshapening or conjugation.
Case I have taken as in the thing, and not in[v]
the name of it, as case is the case into which a thing
falls with a time-taking, and case-words (prepositions)
and case-endings are the tokens of their cases. The
word preposition means a foreputting, or word put before;
but then from and to, in herefrom, and therefrom, and
hitherto, and thereto, are postpositions.
I have tried, as I have given some so-thought truths
of English speech, to give the causes of them, and hope
that the little book may afford a few glimpses of new insight
into our fine old Anglo-Saxon tongue.
To any friend who has ever asked me whether I
do not know some other tongues beside English, my
answer has been ‘No; I do not know English itself.’
How many men do? And how should I know all of the
older English, and the mighty wealth of English words
which the English Dialect Society have begun to bring
forth; words that are not all of them other shapes of our
words of book-English, or words of their very meanings,
but words of meanings which dictionaries of book-English
should, but cannot give, and words which should be
taken in hundreds (by careful choice) into our Queen’s
English? If a man would walk with me through our
village, I could show him many things of which we want
to speak every day, and for which we have words of
which Johnson knew nothing.
Some have spoken of cultivated languages as differing
from uncultivated ones, and of the reducing of a
speech to a grammatical form.
What is the meaning of ‘cultivate’ as a time word about[vi]
a speech? The Latin dictionary does not help us to its
meaning, and it might be that of the French cultiver, from
which we should have, by the wonted changes, to cultive.
The Romans said colere deum and colere agrum, but not
agrum cultivare; and we may believe that colo, with deus
or ager, bore the same meaning, ‘to keep or hold (with
good care),’ and a speech is cultivated by the speaking as
well as by the writing of it, and a speech which is sounding
over a whole folkland every moment of the day cannot
be uncultivated. ‘Not with good care,’ it may be said.
Yes; most people speak as well as they can, as they write
as well as they can, from the utterer of a fine rede-speech
(oration), and the clergyman who gives unwritten sermons,
down to the lowly maiden who dresses as finely as
she can; and to try to dress herself well is a token that
she will try to express herself well.
King Finow, of the Tonga Islands, gave a fine speech,
as Mr. Mariner tells us, at his coming to the throne; and
it may be well said that he made it, as he had made it in
thought, ere he came to the meeting.
What is meant by the reducing of a speech to a
grammatical form, or to grammar, is not very clear. If a
man would write a grammar of a speech, of which there
is yet none, what could he do but show it forth as it is in
the shape which its best speakers over the land hold to
be its best? To hold that a tongue had no shape, or a
bad one, ere a grammar of it was written, seems much
like saying that a man had no face, or a bad one, till his
likeness was taken.
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HEADS OF MATTER.
PAGE |
Free Breathings | 1 |
Breath-pennings | 2 |
Word-strain and Speech-strain | 3 |
Thing-names | 4 |
Thing-sundrinesses | 4 |
Thing Mark-words: |
Sex | 5 |
Kindred | 5 |
Size | 5 |
Tale | 6-9 |
Outshowing Mark-words | 10, 12 |
Persons | 11 |
Suchness | 12 |
Pitches of Suchness | 13 |
Time-taking and Time-words | 14 |
Intransitive | 14 |
Transitive | 15 |
Cause Time-takings | 15 |
Time-giving | 15 |
Words in -ing | 17 |
Strong and Weak Time-words | 18-26 |
Sundriness of Time-taking | 26 |
[viii]Helping Time-words, can, may, shall, must | 27 |
Person, Tale, Mood, Time | 27, 30 |
Historic Time-wording | 30 |
Case | 31 |
Way-marks and Stead-marks | 33 |
Thought-wording, Speech-wording | 35 |
Twin Time-takings | 35 |
Speech-trimming | 36 |
Miswording | 36-42 |
Word-sameness | 38 |
Odd Wordshapes | 42, 43 |
Wordiness | 44 |
Hard Breathing | 44 |
Mark Time-words (Participles) | 45 |
Words of Speech-craft, and others | 47 |
Power of the Word-endings | 83 |
Goodness of a Speech | 86 |
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SPEECH-CRAFT.
Speech-craft (Grammar), called by our Saxon fore-fathers
Staef-craeft or Letter-craft, is the knowledge or
skill of a speech.
The science of speech in the main, as offmarked
from any one speech (Philology), may be called Speech-lore.
Speech is the speaking or bewording of thoughts, and
is of sundry kinds of words.
Speech is of breath-sounds with sundry breathings,
hard or mild, and breath-pennings, which become words.
(1) A freely open breathing through the throat,
unpent by tongue or lips, as in the sounds A, E, O, OO,
which are pure voicing. The main ones in English
are—
- 1. ee, in meet.
- 2. e, in Dorset speech.
- 3. a, in mate.
- 4. ea, in earth.
- 5. a, in father.
- 6. aw, in awe.
- 7. o, in bone.
- 8. oo, in fool.
Besides this open speech-breathing there are two
kinds of breath-penning.
(2) The dead breath-penning, as in the sounds AK,
AP, AT, AG, AB, AD, which end with a dead penning
of the sounding breath.
In AK and AG it is pent in the throat.
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In AP and AB with the lips.
In AT and AD on the roof.
K, P, T are hard pennings; G, B, D are mild pennings,
the breathing being harder in the former and
softer in the latter.
Then there are half-pennings of the sounding breath,
which is more or less but not wholly pent, but allowed
to flow on as through the nose in
as in the half-pent sounds—
AKH, |
AF, | AV, |
ATH, | ATHE, |
ALL (Welsh), | AL, |
ARH, | AR, |
AS, | AZ, |
ASH, | AJ (French), |
half-pent by the tongue and mouth-roof.
For a hard breathing the mark is H, as and, hand;
art, hart.
1 Dead Pennings, Hard | 2 Half-Pennings, Hard |
3 Dead Pennings, Mild | 4 Half-Pennings, Mild |
(1) C, K(Throat) | (5) KH German and Welsh | (14) G | (18) GH |
(2) NK in ink | (6) F | (15) NGH like NG in finger, not singer | (19) NG |
(3) P (Lip) | (7) MH | (16) B | (20) V, BH Irish |
(4) T | (8) TH in thin | (17) D | (21) M |
| (9) LL Welsh | | (22) TH in thee |
| (10) RH Welsh | | (23) L Welsh |
| (11) S | | (24) R Welsh |
| (12) SH | | (25) Z |
| (13) NH | | (26) J French |
| | | (27) N |
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Words are of breath-sounds, and some words are
one-sounded, as man; and others are tway-sounded, as
manly; and others many-sounded, as unmanliness.
There is word-strain and speech-strain.
The high word-strain (accent) is the rising or strengthening
of the voice on one sound of a word, as man´ly.
The high speech-strain (emphasis) is the rising or
strengthening of the voice on a word of a thought-wording.
The voice may both rise and fall on the same sounds,
as nō.
In English and its Teutonic sister speeches the strain
keeps on the root or stem-word, as man, man´ly,
man´liness; though in clustered words, with their first
breath-sounds the same, the strain may shift for the sake
of clearness, as ‘Give me the tea´pot’—the teakettle is
given, and thereupon the bidder may say ‘the teaPOT´,’
not the teaKETTLE.
In Greek the accent shifts in word-building, and
likes mainly to settle at about two times or short breath-sounds
from the end of the word; and in Welsh it
settles mostly on the last breath-sound but one, as
eis´tedd, a sitting; eistedd´fod, a sitting-stead; eisteddfod´an,
sitting-steads, or bardic sessions.
Besides the word-strain (accent) and the speech-strain
(emphasis), there is a speech-tuning (modulation)
of the voice (voice-winding), which winds up or down
with sundry feelings of the mind, and with question
and answers and changes of the matter of speech.
Things may be matterly (concrete) or bodies of
matter, as a man, a tree, a stone; or
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Things may be unmatterly (abstract), not bodies of
matter, as faith, hope, love, shape, speed, emptiness.
It is not altogether good that a matterly and unmatterly
thing should be named by the very same word,
as youth, a young man, and youth, youngness.
THINGS AND THING-NAMES.
Things are of many kinds, as a man, a bird, a fish;
an oyster, a sponge, a pebble; water, air, earth; honey,
gold, salt.
The names of things may be called Thing-names.
But there are one-head thing-names (proper names),
the names each of some one thing of its kind; as John,
the miller; Toby, the dog; Moti, the lady’s Persian
cat.
With Christian names may be ranked the so-called
patronymics, or sire-names, taken from a father’s name, as
William Johnson, Thomas Richardson; or in Welsh,
Enid Verch Edeyrn; or in Hebrew Jeroboam Ben-nebat.
Thing Sundriness and Thing Mark-words.
☛ Mark is here to be taken in its old Saxon
meaning, mearc—what bounds, defines, describes, distinguishes.
The Welsh call the adjective the weak name or noun,
enw gwan.
Sundriness of Sex, Kindred, Youngness, and Smallness.
Marked by sundry names or mark-words, or mark
endings.
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Sex.
The stronger or carl sex, as a man; the weaker or
quean sex, as a girl; the unsexly things, as a stone.
Husband, | wife. |
Father, | mother. |
Brother, | sister. |
In Saxon the sexes in mankind were called halves or
sides, the spear-half and the spindle-half.
Man, | woman. |
Boy, | girl. |
Buck, | doe. |
Stag, | hind. |
Ram, | ewe. |
Cock, | hen. |
He-goat, | she-goat. |
King, | queen. |
Duke, | duchess. |
Kindred, Youngness, or Smallness.
Father, | son. |
Mother, | daughter. |
Mare, | foal. |
Hind, | fawn. |
Cat, | kitten. |
Duck, | duckling. |
Goose, | gosling. |
Ethel, | etheling. |
Small Things.
By forlessening mark-endings:
-y, -ie.
-kin.
-el, -l.
Butt, | bottle (of hay). |
Pot, | pottle. |
Nose, | nozzle. |
By mark-words:
A wee house, a little boy.
For bigness the English tongue wants name-shapes.
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We have bul, horse, and tom, which are mark-words
of bigness or coarseness.
- Bulfinch.
- Bullfrog.
- Bulhead (the Miller’s Thumb. Pen-bwll, Welsh).
- Bulrush.
- Bulstang (the Dragonfly).
- Bullspink.
- Bulltrout.
Horse.
- Horse-bramble.
- Horse-chesnut.
- Horse-laugh.
- Horse-leech.
- Horse-mushroom.
- Horse-mussel.
- Horse-tinger.
- Horse-radish.
Tom.
- Tomboy.
- Tomcat.
- Tomfool.
- Tomnoddy.
- Tomtit.
The words bul and horse are not taken from the
animals.
Sundriness in Tale.
By tale mark-words, as one, five, ten, and others
onward.
Sundriness in Rank.
By rank-word, as first, fifth, tenth, last.
An, a, the so-called indefinite article, is simply the
tale mark-word an, one.
Saxon, | an man. |
Ger., | ein mann. |
West Friesic, | in. |
East Friesic, | en. |
Holstein, | en. |
New Friesic, | ien. |
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We use a before a consonant, and an before a vowel,
as a man, an awl. But it is not that we have put on
the n to a against the yawning, but it is that the n has
been worn off from an.
The Frieses and Holsteiners now say ien man and
en mann.
The mark-word an, a is of use to offmark a common
one-head name, as ‘I have been to a white church’
(common); or, without the mark-word, ‘I have been to
Whitechurch’ (one-head), the name of a village so called.
‘He lives by a pool’; ‘he lives by Pool’ (a town in
Dorset). ‘He works in a broad mead’; ‘he works in
Broadmead’ (in Bristol).
As the Welsh has no such mark-word, it might be
thought that it cannot give these two sundry meanings;
and the way in which it can offmark them shows how
idle it is to try one tongue only by another, or to talk of
the unmeaningness or uselessness of the Welsh word
moulding.
Llan-Tydno would mean a church of Tydno, but
the parish called ‘The Church of Tydno’ is in Welsh
Llandydno, which, as a welding of two words, hints to
the Welsh mind that Llandydno is a proper name, and so
that of a parish.
Hoel da would mean a good Hoel; but to Hoel, the
good king, the Welsh gives as a welded proper name
Hoel dda; and to Julius Cæsar the Welsh gives, as one
welded proper name, Iolo-voel, Julius-bald, whereas Iolo-moel
would mean some bald Julius.
One sundriness of tale, the marking of things under
speech—as onely (singular) or somely (plural)—is by an[8]
onputting to the thing-name for someliness a mark-ending,
or by a moulding of the name into another
shape or sound.
By mark-endings, -es, -s, -en, -n.
Lash, | lashes. |
Cat, | cats. |
House, | housen. |
Shoe, | shoon. |
By for-moulding, as foot, feet—tooth, teeth; or by both
word-moulding or sound-moulding and an ending, as
brother, brethren.
When the singular shape ends in -sh, -ss, or -x, -ks, it
takes on -es for the somely, as lash, lashes; kiss, kisses;
box, boxes.
And surely, when the singular shape ends in -st, our
Universities or some high school of speech ought to give
us leave to make it somely by the old ending -en or
-es instead of -s—fist, fisten, fistes; nest, nesten, nestes.
What in the world of speech can be harsher than
fists, lists, nests?
It is unhappy that the old ending in -en, which is
yet the main one in West Friesic, should have given
way to the hissing s.
Where common names with the definite mark-word
become names of places they are wont to lose the
article, as The Bath, in Somerset, is now Bath; The
Wells, in Somerset, Wells; Sevenoaks, not The Seven Oaks,
in Kent.
In our version of Acts xxvii. 8, we have a place
which is called The Fair Havens, instead of Fairhavens
without the mark-word, as the Greek gives the name.
Other thing mark-words offmark all of the things of
a name or set from others of another name or set.
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All birds, or all the birds in the wood; or all taken
singly, as each or every bird; or somely, as set or share;
some few or a few; many or a many birds.
Another or others beyond one or some under speech.
Any one or more of a some, either apple or any
apples.
Both, for the two without others; or
Much or little grass.
Many mark-words were at first thing-names.
Many was a menge, a main or upmingled set; and a
great many men would mean a great set or gathering of
men.
Few was feo, which seems to have meant at first a
cluster or herd; and a few men was a few (cluster) of
men.
Some was a sam or som, a set or upmingled mass;
and some men was a sam or som of men.
Now if the speech is about the set, it may be
onely, as ‘There is a great many,’ ‘there is a small few,’ or
‘a few’; but if the speech is about the bemarked things,
the mark-word may well be somely—‘many men are’;
‘few men are’; ‘some men are.’
In the queer wording, ‘many a man,’ ‘many a
flow’r is born to blush unseen,’ it is not at all likely
that a is the article. It is rather a worn shape, like a
in a-mong (an-menge), or a-hunting (an-huntunge), of the
Saxon case-word an or on, meaning in; and it is not
unlikely that man has, by the mistaking of a for an
article, taken the stead of men—‘an maeng an men,’
a many or mass in men; as we say ‘a herd in sheep,’
‘a horde in gold.’ So far as this is true the mark-word[10]
may be somely—‘many a man or men,’ ‘a main in men
are.’
None (Saxon na-an, no one) should have a singular
verb—‘None is (not are) always happy.’
Some mark-words are for a clear outmarking (as single
or somely) of things outshown from among others.
Outshowing Mark-words.
(Near things.) |
Single. This man. | Somely. These men. |
(Farther off.) |
That. | Those. |
(Still farther off, or out of sight.) |
Yon. |
The so-called definite article the is a mark-word of
the same kind as this, that, these, and those.
The word the in ‘the more the merrier’ is not the
article the—to a name-word. It is an old Saxon outshowing
mark-word meaning with that (mid þy). ‘The
more the merrier’; þy (with that measure), they are
more; þy (with that measure), they are merrier.
In the wording ‘the man who’ or ‘the bird which
was in the garden,’ who and which are not the names,
but are tokens or mark-words of the things—who of the
man, and which of the bird.
A thing may be marked by many mark-words, as
‘the (never to be forgotten) day,’ ‘the (having to me
shown so many kindnesses) man is yet alive.’
A long string of mark-words may, however, be found[11]
awkward, and so we may take a name-token who for the
man, and, instead of the words ‘having to me shown
so many kindnesses,’ say, ‘who showed me so many
kindnesses.’
Who or that is the name-token for menkind, and
which or that for beings of lower life or of no life, as
‘the man who’ or ‘the bird or flower which was in
the garden.’
Who and which are used in the asking of questions—‘Who
is he?’ ‘What is that?’
The name-token should follow close on the forename
for the sake of clearness. ‘Alfred sold, for a
shilling, the bat which William gave him,’ not ‘Alfred
sold the bat for a shilling which William gave him,’ if it
was the bat that was given to him by William.
These mark-words take the stead of thing-names,
and are Name-stead words, and clear the speech of
repetitions of the names. The baby may say ‘Baby
wants the doll,’ but at length learns to say ‘I want
the doll’; or ‘Papa, take baby,’ and afterwards ‘You
take me’; or ‘Give baby the whip—the whip is baby’s,’
for ‘It is mine.’
A man may be beholden to the speech in three
ways:—
- (1) He may be the speaker, called the First Person;
- (2) He may be spoken to, the Second Person (the to-spoken thing);
- (3) He may be spoken of, the Third Person (the of-spoken thing);
and some mark-words are for the marking of things[12]
without their names, both in tale and their sundry beholdenness
to the speech:—
Single. | Somely. |
1st Person. |
I. | We. |
2nd Person. |
Thou. | Ye, you. |
3rd Person. |
He, she, it. |
Here the sex is marked.
It is sometimes put for an unforeset thing-name of
an unbodily cause or might, as ‘it rains’; ‘it freezes.’
For a child or an animal of unknown sex we may
take the neuter (or sexless) mark-word it. ‘It (the child)
cries.’
SUCHNESS OR QUALITIES,
and mark-words or mark-wording of suchness, as good,
bad, long, heavy.
Suchness may be marked by one word, as ‘a white lily,’
or by a some or many of words, as ‘a very white lily,’
or ‘a most dazzlingly white lily,’ or ‘a lily as white as
snow.’
Things are marked as having much of something, as
hilly, stony, watery; or made of something, as golden,
wooden, woollen; or having some things, as two-legged,
three-cornered, long-eared, or loved or hated; of the same
set or likeness of something, as lovely, quarrelsome,
manly, childish; wanting of something, as beardless,
friendless.
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Pitches of Suchness.
The Suchnesses of Things are of sundry pitches,
which are marked by sundry shapes or endings or bye-words
of the mark-words, as ‘My ash is tall, the elm is
taller, and the Lombardy poplar is the tallest of the
three trees’; or ‘Snow is whiter than chalk,’ or ‘Chalk
is less white than snow,’ or ‘John is the tallest or least
tall of the three brothers.’
These Pitch-marks offmark sundry things by their
sundry suchnesses, as ‘The taller or less tall man of the
two is my friend,’ or ‘The tallest man is less tall than
the tree,’ or ‘The least tall man is taller than the girl.’
The three Pitches may be called the Common Pitch,
the Higher Pitch, and the Highest Pitch.
The Welsh has a fourth Pitch-word, called the
Even Pitch, as pell, far; pellach, farther; pellaf, farthest;
pelled, as far (as something else).
Younger may mean younger reckoned from young, or
younger reckoned from old; as ‘Alfred at 80 is younger
than Edward at 85.’ In this case we may well say
less old.
Worse (wyrse) is shapen from wo, wa, we, a stub-root
which means wrong, atwist, bad in any way, and is our
woe.
The r in weor is most likely of a forstrengthening
and not a comparative meaning—weor, wyr, very bad;
weorer, wyrer, still more strongly bad. But, not to
double the r, men might have put a strengthening s,
and so had weors.
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TIME-TAKING.
You cannot behold a thing in your mind otherwise
than in or under some doing or in some form of being.
Every case of being or doing is a taking of time,
as ‘the lily is white,’ ‘the man strikes,’ ‘the bird flies
or was hit.’ For though the being white, or the striking
or flying or hitting was only for the twinkling of an eye,
it took time; for the eyelid takes time, however short it
may be, to flit down and up over the eyeball. Thence
the word commonly called the verb may be called the
Time-taking word or Time-word, as it is called by the
Germans Das Zeitwort; or, as it is the main word of the
thought and speech, it is the Thought-word or Speech-word;
or, as it is called in Latin and other tongues, the
Word.
Welsh speech-lore has called the verb the soul[1] of
the thought-wording.
Among the thousands of sundriness of time-taking
there are some wide differences which should be borne
in mind.
Unoutreaching or Intransitive.
Time-takings, which must or may end with the time-taking
thing, as
To be. John cannot be another man.
To sleep; to walk. John cannot sleep or walk
another man.
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Outreaching (Transitive).
Time-takings that may begin with the time-taking
thing, and reach out to another, as
To strike; to see. John may strike or see another
man.
Time-giving.
If a man, A, takes time against another, B, as to see
B, we should more truly say of B that he gives, not takes,
the time which A takes.
The time-words for unoutreaching time-takings may
be called Unoutreaching; of the outreaching ones, Outreaching;
of the time-givings, Time-giving.
In some cases there is between the time-taking thing
and the time-giving thing a middle one—the thing, tool, or
matter with which the time is taken, as ‘John hit William
with a stone’ or ‘a cane.’ But then, again, this wording
is shortened by the putting of the name of the mid-thing
as a time-word, as ‘John stoned or caned William.’
And this brings in a call for the marking of two sundry
kinds of time-words—the strong or moulded, and weak
or unmoulded time-words.
A time-word, when it tells a taking of time by one
thing against another, is in the outreaching (active)
voice—‘John strikes the iron.’ When it tells of the
giving of time, it is in the time-giving (passive) voice.
When it tells of an unoutreaching time-taking it is in
the middle voice.
For the causing of another thing to take time some
tongues have set shapes of the time-word, as, in Hindustani,
durna, to run; durāna, to make another run.
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We have hardly any of such words, though such are—
- Lie, lay.
- Sit, set.
- Rise, raise.
Time-takings for becoming or making another thing
become otherwise are marked by the ending -en on the
mark-word, as
Misdoing by the fore-eking mis-:—
Longer-lasting time-takings marked by the ending
-er, as
Chat, | chatter (to chatter much or long). |
Fret, | fritter. |
Sway, | swagger. |
Short or small time-takings by endings such as
-ock, -ick.
Whine, | whinnock whinnick (to whine smally). |
-el, -l.
Prate, | prattle. |
Jog, | joggle. |
Crack, | crackle. |
A time-taking, taken as a deed or being without any
time-taking thing, is taken as a thing, and its name is
a Thing-name, as to write.
As in Greek the Infinitive mood, tò gráphein, the
‘to write’; and in Italian, il scrivere, the ‘to write’ (the
deed of writing or a writing), so the Infinitive mood-shape
of the Saxon time-word was taken as a thing-name
after the preposition to, to or for, as to huntianne (to
or for the deed to hunt or hunting), as ‘Why does
Alfred keep those dogs?’ ‘To huntianne.’
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Thence we have our wording—
- ‘Any chairs to mend?’ (any chairs to or for the deed mending),
- ‘A house to let,’
- ‘Letters to write,’
- ‘A tale to tell,’
which is all good English.
It is an evil to our speech that the thing-shape now
ending in -ing should be mistaken for the mark-word
ending in -ing.
Unhappily two sundry endings of the old English
have worn into one shape. They were -ung or -ing
and -end.
Singung is the deed of singing, a thing. Singend is
a mark-word, as in the wording ‘I have a singing bird.’
Sailing and hunting, in the foregiven thought-wordings,
are thing-names, and not mark-words. Sailing is segling,
as ‘ne mid seglinge ne mid rownesse’ (neither with sailing
nor rowing).—Bede 5, 1.
‘Wunigende ofer hyne’ (woning [mark-word] over
him).—Matt iii. 16.
‘Sy wunung heora on west’ (be their woning [thing-name]
waste).—Ps. lxviii 30.
‘Ða genealaehton hym to Farisaer hyne costigende’
(then came near to him the Pharisees tempting [mark-word]
him).—Matt xix. 3.
‘Ne gelaede þu us on costnunge’ (lead us not into
tempting [thing-name]).—Lord’s Prayer.
So ‘haelende,’ Matt v. 23; ‘haeling’; ‘bodigende,’
Matt. x. 35; ‘bodung,’ Luke xi. 32.
‘Waere þu to-daeg, on huntunge?’ (not huntende)
(wert thou to-day on or in hunting?)—Aelfric’s Dialogue.
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‘Hwaet dest þu be þinre huntunge?’ (not huntende)
(what dost thou by thy hunting?)—Aelfric.
‘The CALLING of assemblies I cannot away with.’—Isa.
i. 13. Not ‘calling assemblies,’ which, if calling
were a mark-word, would mean assemblies that call.
The right speech-trimming with the thing-names in -ing
is to trim them in the old English way as thing-names
in their cases; as,
‘We are the offscouring of all things unto this day.’—1
Cor. iv. 13. Not ‘We are the offscouring all things.’
‘For that righteous man, IN seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul.’
‘By the WASHING of regeneration and (the) RENEWING
of the Holy Ghost.’—Titus iii. 5. Not ‘He saved us
by the washing regeneration and renewing the Holy
Ghost.’
The ending -er of the time-taker (deeder, name-word)
is, not unclearly, the Celtic, Welsh gwr, or in word-welding
-wr, the Latin -or; as,
Welsh, barn, doom; barnwr, a doom-man.
Latin, canto, to sing; cantor, a sing-man.
Thence -er seems a far less fitting ending for a tool-name
than the old Saxon -el; and a tool for the whetting
of knives would be more fitly called a whettel than a
whetter. Choppel, chopper; clippels, clippers.
All new time-words now taken or shapen from other
tongues must be unmoulded.
We say shoot, shot (not shooted); but loot, looted
(not lot), loot being the Hindustani lootna, to rob or
plunder.
So time-words, which are known English words,[19]
of another kind, names or mark-words, are mostly unmoulded.
The shapening of the time-words hangs rather more
on their endings than on their headings.
The oddest are those which end in the throat-pennings—NG,
NK, K, G; and those ending in roof-pennings—T,
D.
Because the -d of the roof-penning -ed is so unlike
a throat-penning, which cannot easily stand with it: and
because the T and D are like d as roof-pennings, and
(see Table) they may run into them.
-ING Root-words (strong).
The wording of a time-taking (predicate) with its
speech-thing (subject) is a Thought-wording (proposition).
Strong or moulded time-words are such as, for a
time-taking of foretime, are moulded (without any out-eking)
into another shape or sound, as
I sing, | I sang. |
It flies, | it flew. |
The weak or unmoulded time-words take on, unmoulded,
an ending such as -ed, as
He stones, | he stoned. |
He canes, | he caned. |
All time-words that are known names of things are
unmoulded, as
To | Plaster, | plastered. |
| Bud, | budded. |
| Comb, | combed. |
| Cap, | capped. |
| Dust, | dusted. |
| Fish, | fished. |
| Gate, | gated. |
| Water, | watered. |
| Heap, | heaped. |
| Mind, | minded. |
| Name, | named. |
| Pen, | penned. |
| Stone, | stoned. |
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Very many of our time-words are unmoulded from
the same cause—that they are names of things; although
such names of things, having become worn more or less
out of shape, or having fallen out of use, may not show
themselves to our minds what they are.
To hunt makes hunted; why? From hound, to hunt,
meaning at first to seek with a hound.
It may, however, be said, ‘Is to hunt from hound, or
hound from to hunt?’
Such a point is, in very many cases, cleared out by
the Anglo-Saxon, in which ‘to hunt’ is hunt-i-an, not
hunt-an; and the i, a worn shape of ig, shows that
huntian is from hund, hound, and so hound is not from
hunt.
The time-word from the thing hunt-ig-an, hunt-i-an,
is to houndy, to take time with a hound.
We say
Cling, clung. |
Fling, flung. |
Sling, slung. |
But we should say ‘he ringed (not rung) his pig’;
‘he stringed his harp’; ring and string being things.
The strong or moulded time-words are nearly or quite
all words ending in one single breath-penning, and
of a close sound (1, 2, 3, or 4 of the Table), as
-ING, | Cling, | clung. |
-INK, | Sink, | sank. |
-K, | Speak, | spoke. |
-L, | Steal, | stole. |
-T, | Smite, | smote. |
-R, | Tear, | tore. |
-V, | Weave, | wove. |
Other time-words, name-words, or stem-words, and
broad-sounded ones (5, 6, 7, 8 of the Table), are nearly
all weak or unmoulded.
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Weak.
The ending -NG in broad-sounded words—
Clang, | clanged. |
Bung, | bunged. |
Long, | longed. |
-NK, Broad.
Bank, | banked. |
Clank, | clanked. |
Flank, | flanked. |
And in
Blink, | blinked. |
Link, | linked. |
Clink, | clinked. |
-K, Broad, Long Stem-words (weak).
Bake, | baked. |
Croak, | croaked. |
Hawk, | hawked. |
Rake, | raked. |
Make was heretofore maked:
‘For aevric rice man his castles makede.’—Sax. Chron.
MCXXXVI.
K wore out, whence
Maked, ma-ed, maed, made.
-K, Short.
Back, | backed. |
Clack, | clacked. |
-G, Short.
Beg, | begged. |
Clog, | clogged. |
All but dig, dug. What a pity to put it out of keeping
with all of the others! It is digged in the Bible.
-T, Long Stem-words.
Bait, | baited. |
Bate, | bated. |
Bleat, | bleated. |
Bloat, | bloated. |
Clout, | clouted. |
Float, | floated. |
-T, Short Stem-words.
Bat, | batted. |
Bet, | betted. |
Clot, | clotted. |
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-TH.
-T, Short (weak shortened).
Cut, | cut. |
Hit, | hit. |
Let, | let. |
Set, | set. |
&c. |
The wear of these words was thislike:
The mild penning, d, after a hard one, t, became
hard, t. Whence lette, let, with the two tt run into one.
A pity!
So were shapen feed, fedde, fed; lead, ledde, led;
read, redde.
Weak -D (long).
Crowd, | crowded. |
Fade, | faded. |
Weak -D (short).
-L, Broad Sound (long).
Brawl, | brawled. |
Call, | called. |
A few of them are shortened, as feel, feeld, felt.
-N, Long.
Clean, | cleaned. |
Frown, | frowned. |
-N, Short Stem-words.
Din, | dinned. |
Pin, | pinned. |
Sin, | sinned. |
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-R, Broad Sounds.
Blare, | blared. |
Care, | cared. |
Dare now makes durst; but in Friesic it is unmoulded—‘and
ne thuradon nâ wither forskina’ (and
dared not to show themselves again).
-R, Short.
Bar, | barred. |
Purr, | purred |
Stir, | stirred. |
-S and -Z, Long.
Pose, | posed. |
Praise, | praised. |
Blaze, | blazed. |
Close, | closed. |
Daze, | dazed. |
Raze, | razed. |
-SS.
Bless, | blessed. |
Guess, | guessed. |
-SH.
Blush, | blushed. |
Clash, | clashed. |
-P, Long.
Heap, | heaped. |
Peep, | peeped. |
Reap, | reaped. |
Gape, | gaped. |
Cope, | coped. |
Hope, | hoped. |
Mope, | moped. |
Stoop, | stooped. |
Weak. | Shortened. |
Creep, | crep’d. |
Keep, | kep’d. |
Leap, | lep’d. |
Sleep, | slep’d. |
Weep, | wep’d. |
Sweep, | swep’d. |
-P, Short.
Cap, | capped. |
Hap, | happed. |
Hop, | hopped. |
Stop, | stopped. |
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Weak -B (short).
-V, Long.
Crave, | craved. |
Grave, | graved. |
Rave, | raved. |
-F, Short.
Huff, | huffed. |
Cough, | coughed. |
-M, Long.
All but come, came.
Stub-roots.
Time-words ending in an open breathing. Most of
them are weak:—
Bay, | bayed. |
Bow, | bowed. |
Brew, | brewed. |
Claw, | clawed. |
Say, | said. |
Stew, | stewed. |
A few of them are moulded:—
Blow, | blew. |
Crow, | crew. |
Grow, | grew. |
Slay, | slew. |
All those that end in two or three sundry breath-pennings
are weak:—
-NCH, | Pinch, | pinched. |
-ND, | Land, | landed. |
-NGE, | Lounge, | lounged. |
-NT, | Grant, | granted. |
-PL, | Cripple, | crippled. |
-PT, | Intercept, | intercepted. |
-RB, | Barb, | barbed. |
-RC, | Cork, | corked. |
[25]-RD, | Hord, | horded. |
-RG, | Charge, | charged. |
-RL, | Hurl, | hurled. |
-BL, | Bubble, | bubbled. |
-CL, | Cackle, | cackled. |
-DL, | Huddle, | huddled. |
-FL, | Ruffle, | ruffled. |
-FT, | Heft, | hefted. |
-GL, | Naggle, | naggled. |
-LP, | Gulp, | gulped. |
-LK, | Chalk, | chalked. |
-LD, | Mould, | moulded. |
-LP, | Help, | helped. |
-LV, | Calve, | calved. |
-MB, | Climb, | climbed. |
-MP, | Pump, | pumped. |
-MT, | Tempt, | tempted. |
-RM, | Harm, | harmed. |
-RN, | Burn, | burned. |
-RP, | Carp, | carped. |
-RT, | Flirt, | flirted. |
-RTH, | Earth, | earthed. |
-SS, | Miss, | missed. |
-SP, | Clasp, | clasped. |
-ST, | Consist, | consisted. |
(All but cast, formerly casted.) |
-TCH, | Hatch, | hatched. |
-TL, | Bottle, | bottled. |
-RST, | Burst, | bursted. |
A few time-words ending with a throat-penning mark
the heretofore time by some oddness of shape; as,
Bring, | brought. |
Think, | thought. |
They were opened in sound, and also took the ending
ode, od (our ed), and then came into our shapes by sundry
wonted changes:—
-ing (as of bring) became -ong. |
-ing-ed | became | (1) -ong-ed. |
-ong-ed | „ | (2) -ong’d. |
-ong’d | „ | (3) -onk’d. |
Then the d, a mild penning after a hard penning (k),
became hard, t:—
-onk’d | became | (4) -onk’t. |
-onk’t | „ | (5) -ok’t. |
-ok’t | „ | (6) -o’t, |
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as k and t are harsh together. Whence—
Bring | bro’t (brought). |
Buy (bycg, A.S.) | bo’t. |
Seek (sec, A.S.) | so’t. |
Teach (taec, A.S.) | to’t. |
Our gh as in taught is the now unuttered (though
still written) throat-penning.
Time-takings or time-givings may be taken as thing-marks,
as ‘the hunting dog’; ‘the hunted hare.’
The sundry moods of time-takings are marked by
sundry shapes of the time-word, or by bye-words or
mark-words—shall, will, can, may, must.
The timings of time-takings are marked by sundry
shapes of the time-word, and by bye-words or mark-words
to it, as ‘the bird flies’ or does fly, or flew or did
fly, or will fly.
Under-Sundrinesses of Time-takings.
Time-takings are of sundry kinds, under sundry
names, as to be, to walk, to strike.
Under-time-markings may be by single words, as
‘to write well or ill, slowly or quickly’; or by two or
three words, as ‘he runneth very swiftly’; or by clusters
of words, as ‘he runs with most amazing speed’; or ‘he
works in a very skilful way.’
Fitting of the Time-word to all the cases of
Person, Time, and Mood.
In this fitting the time-word is helped by sundry
bye-words or under-mark-words.
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Can, from the Saxon cun-n-an, to ken, know, to know
how. ‘I can write,’ I know how to write.
The heretofore time-shape of Ic can was Ic cuðe, for
which we have now I could, with an l which was never in
the root of the word, and for which there is not any ground.
May.—Mag-an, the stem of maht, might, means to
strongen, to be or become strong (Lat. valere), as is
shown by cases of its use in Saxon and other Teutonic
tongues.
In an old Friesic good wish at the drinking to the
health of a bride and bridegroom we find ‘Dat se lang
lave en wel mage,’ that they long live and well may
(strongen, bene valeant); and in Saxon, ‘Hu maeg he?’
how mays he? (strongens or valet).
Shall.—Sceal-an, meant, as a stem, to offmark, distinguish,
or to skill in the meaning of 1 Kings v. 6—‘Ic
sceal dón,’ I offmark or skill to do; as what I am
bent to do.
‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.’ Thou markest
or clearly seest to love the Lord thy God.
‘Thou shalt not steal.’ Thou markest this. Not to
steal.
Must.—Mot-an, most-an, is most likely a stem of the
word mag-an, to strongen (valere).
The -st would strengthen the meaning of mag (may)
as it does in -est of longest. So ‘I must go’ (Ic moste
gán) would mean ‘I am overmighted by another’s might
to go.’
Time-words are fitted
To Person, as |
I am. | Thou art. | He is. |
[28]To Tale, as |
I am. We are. | Thou art. Ye are. | He is. They are. |
To Time, as |
I am (now). | I was (heretofore). |
I shall be (hereafter). |
To Mood, as
I write, or shall write.
I may or can write, or might or could or should write.
If I write, or if I had written.
Things and Time-takings.
Timing of time-takings is the marking of their times,
as now, heretofore, or hereafter.
Time.
Now or hereat.
I am, or I love, or am loved.
Heretofore done.
I was, or I loved, or was loved.
Heretofore ongoing.
I was, or I was a-loving or I did love.
Now ended.
I have been, or I have loved, or have been loved.
Heretofore ended.
[29]I had been, or I had loved, or had been loved.
Heretofore ongoing, ended.
I had been a-loving.
Hereafter doing.
I shall be, or I shall love, or shall be loved.
Hereafter ongoing.
I shall be a-loving.
Hereafter ended.
I shall have been, or shall have loved, or shall have been loved.
Hereafter ended, ongoing.
I shall have been a-loving.
Single and stringly time-takings of the same name,
as ‘Mary sold me some apples yesterday.’ There was
a single selling; but under the wording ‘Mary formerly
sold apples in the market,’ it is clear that under the same
word sold is meant a string of sellings.
So under the wording ‘Write your name’ is understood
a single writing; but under the wording ‘If you
would write readily, write every day,’ the same word
write implies a string of writings.
Some tongues (as the Greek and Russian) have two
shapes of the time-words for these two cases of time-taking;
as, Greek—
‘Take thy bill and write fifty’ (γράψον, aorist).—Luke
xvi. 6.
‘Jesus, stooping down, wrote on the ground’ (ἔγραφεν,
imperfect, ondoing shape, wrote on).
But Acts xxv. 26, ‘About whom I have nothing[30]
certain to write’ (γράψαι, aorist, to write off once
for all).
See the Greek text of the 3rd Epistle of John v. 13—‘I
had many (things or many times?) to write (γράφειν,
ondoing shape), but I will not with pen and ink write
(γράψαι) to thee’ (aorist, offdoing form).
An understanding of the difference between the
aorist and ondoing shapes is of weight in the reading
of the Gospel. ‘To make intercession, to intercede
for them.’—Heb. vii. 25. To intercede once for
all, at the doom-day? No. To intercede on always; for
the word is not in the aorist shape, but in the present
ondoing form, to be interceding.
Historic Time-wording.
A time-shape of a time-word used in an unwonted
way for the telling of a string of deeds, as, in English,
the present time-shape is so used for deeds of foretime,
as ‘He opens the door, walks in, coolly takes a chair,
sits down, and tells the maid he wishes to see me.’
So ‘Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him,’
&c.—John i. 45.
The Moods of Time-takings.
Mood.
The wording of the time-taking may be; as,
(1) Now or heretofore true, or hereafter sure, as
‘He is, or was, or will be’; ‘He sings, or sang, or will
sing.’ The Truth Mood.
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(2) That it may or can, or could or might be so
taken, as ‘He may or can go.’ The Mayly Mood.
(3) Or that it is to be wished that it may or might be
taken, as ‘I wish,’ or ‘Oh that I could go.’ The Wish
Mood.
Or that it is a hinge time-taking on which another
hangs, as ‘If you ask (hinge), you will receive (on-hang).’
Or as bidden to be taken, as ‘Go thy way.’
Stead-marks and Way-marks of Time-takings.
Case.
Things named in speech, so as to mark the stead
of the beginning or end, or of the way of the time-taking
at any point of its length or outreach in time
or room, are Case-things.
There are, however, two cases which are speech-cases
and not stead-marks or way-marks:—
(1) That of the of-spoken thing (nominative), the
thing of which the speech speaks, as ‘The bird flies’;
and
(2) The to-spoken thing (vocative), as ‘O sing,
sweet bird.’
Cases are marked by shapes of thing-names or by
case-words, or by the setting of the case-word either
after or before the time-word, as ‘The dog drove out the
cat,’ where the dog is the beginning of the time-taking;
or ‘The cat drove out the dog,’ where the dog is the end
of it, and is shown to be so by the setting of its name
after the time-word.
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Source.
‘The bird flew from, or off, or out of the tree.’
‘He died of or from intemperance.’
The tree and intemperance are source-marks of flew
and died.
End or Aim.
‘John loved George.’
‘He went to or towards London.’
‘Edwin worked for wages, or strolled along by the
stream.’
The Stead Case.
‘John was in the field or at the church.’
The Tool.
‘Alfred wrote with a pen.’
‘The bird flew before, behind, over, under, above,
below, by, around, or through the gate-turret,’ which is
the way-mark of flew.
There is a Source-mark which is a source of the
time-taking, not as being only that thing, but as being a
thing then in some shape or kind of time-taking.
‘(a) The wind being against us, (b) we made but
little way.’ a is the source of b, ‘we made but little
way,’ not from the wind simply as wind, but as also being
against us.
‘You being my leader, I shall overcome.’
This is commonly called the absolute case (allfree
case); though the wind is not free of a time-taking
(being against us). It may be called the ‘thing-so-being’
case.
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Some tongues mark many of the cases by sundry
endings of the thing-name, but we have in common
names only one ending for case, the possessive, as ‘the
horse’s mane,’ ‘John’s house.’
In name-tokens we have three case-forms, as thou,
thy, thee—thy for the possessive, and thee for all the
other cases.
‘The bird flew from the apple-tree in the corner of
the garden, through the archway, and under the elm by
the barn, round the hayrick, and on over the stream just
below the willow, and above the bridge, and then to the
stall, and on towards the wood, and into an ivy-bush.’
Here the sundry named things are way-marks which
mark the place of the flying in its beginning and end,
and at sundry points of its length.
Such stead-marks or way-marks may be taken as in
either of one or two or three cases, as they may be either
stead-marks or way-marks, and as their beholdingness to
the time-taking may be reckoned to it or from it to
themselves.
‘The bird flew over or under or by the tree.’ The
flying at first reached on nearer towards the tree, and then
reached off again farther from it, so that the tree was at
first in the case of a toness, and then in the case of a
fromness, with the flying.
But under the wording ‘the roof is over the floor,’ or
‘the floor is under the roof,’ the time-taking is is a staid
and not an ongoing one, and either the roof or the floor
may be in the fromness or toness case, as the height
may be reckoned from it to the other, or to it from the
other.
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A housemother may say ‘We live near (to) Fairton’
(toness case); yet an hour afterwards she may say ‘We
live too far from Fairton (fromness case) to step in
readily for errands.’
Her abode may be four miles from Fairton, so that
the time-taking live is as far from Fairton in one case
as the other; and yet it puts it in two sundry cases.
‘If Alfred gave to Edred a field,’ the time-taking gave
ended in the mid-thing, the field (the endingness case),
but it put the field to Edred, as his, in the toness case.
The place of a time-taking may be shown by one
place-mark, or by two or three, of which a latter may
mark the place of a former, as ‘The rooks build in the
elms, above the house,’ where the elms mark the place of
the building, and the house marks that of the place-mark
(the elms).
But some case-words are made up of a smaller
case-word and a thing-name, as ‘Alfred sat beside the
wall.’ Beside being ‘by the side,’ and the side of the
wall (whereof case).
The figure for case-shifting, or the changing of the
case-tokens, is called in Gr. enallage as
‘I have ten sovereigns in my purse’; ‘My purse
contains ten sovereigns.’
‘The pump has a new handle’; ‘There is a new
handle to the pump.’
‘The carpet in the hall’; ‘The carpet of the hall.’
‘The brother of or to that lady.’
‘John likes cricket or is fond of cricket.’
‘Greedy of gain or for gain.’
‘Think of me or on me.’
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‘He was killed by a blow of a club or with a club.’
‘He spoke in the balcony or from the balcony.’
THOUGHT-WORDING, SPEECH-WORDING,
is the setting of words or a bewording of thought or
speech (syntax).
A thought-wording (proposition) is a bewording of
the case of a thing with its time-taking. ‘The boy is
good’ or ‘the boy plays.’
A thought-wording may have more thing-names and
time-words, as ‘The boys and girls read and play.’
Thought-wordings (propositions) may be linked together
in sundry ways, though mostly by Link-words
(conjunctions). ‘Men walk and birds fly’; ‘I sought
him, but I found him not’; ‘I waited at the door while
Alfred went into the house.’
Twin Time-takings.
The Hinge Time-taking, on which the other hangs,
and the Hank Time-taking which hangs on the Hinge
one, as ‘If ye ask (hinge), ye shall receive (hank).’
There are sundry kinds of hinge time-takings, as one
or the other or both of the time-takings may or may not
be trowed or true or sure.
(1) Hinge and hank, trowed—‘As ye ask (as I trow
you do), so ye receive (I trow).’
(2) Hinge, untrowed; hank, trowed—‘If ye ask (I
trow not whether ye will or no), then ye will receive
(I trow).’
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The hinge-word put down as trowedly untrue, and
the hank one trowed, as ‘If ye asked (as I trow you
do not), ye would receive (I trow)’; or ‘If ye had asked
(ye have not), ye would have received (I trow).’
The hinge time-taking trowed, and the other untrowed,
as ‘Ye ask (I trow), that ye may receive (I
trow not that ye will).’
Speech-trimming.
The putting of speech into trim; trim being a truly
good form or state. To trim a shrub, a bonnet, or a
boat, is to put it into trim.
1. The first care in speech-trimming is that we should
use words which give most clearly the meanings and
thoughts of our mind, though it is not likely that
unclear thought will find a clear outwording; and either
of the two, as clear or unclear, helps to clearen or bemuddle
the other.
With most English minds, and with all who have not
learned the building of Latin and Greek words, English
ones may be used with fewer mistakes of meaning than
would words from those tongues; though Englishmen
should get a clearer insight into English word-building
ere they could hope to keep English words to their true
sundriness of meaning.
The so-seeming miswordings (solœcisms) of writers
in the Latinised and Greekish speech-trimming are not
uncommon or unmarkworthy.
One man writes of something which necessitates
another, though Latin itself has no necessito to back[37]
‘necessitate’; another gives eliminate as meaning elicit,
or outdraw; a third calls a failure of a rule an exception
from it. There is no EXCEPTION to a rule but that which
is excepted from it at and in the downlaying of it. If a
man gives a simple rule ‘that if it rains on St. Swithin’s
day it rains forty days after it,’ and it did not so rain
last year, the case is a breach or failure of the rule, and
not an exception to it. He gave no exception.
Some say ‘Mrs. A. has had twins’ or ‘Alfred was
one of twins.’ A twin is a twain, a two, or a couple of
things of the same name or kind; and twins of children
must be at least four. I should say ‘Alfred was one of
a twin.’ In the latter case it would be correct to say
‘There IS one or a twain of fat men,’ &c., in which is
would match both.
One has written ‘ideas are manufactured.’ By whose
hands? Another talks of ‘a dilapidated dress’; and a
third has ‘found the stomach of a big fish dilapidated.’
What are lapides? and what means delapido?
A man has written of an old Tartar that he was ‘a
tameless gorilla’—a gorilla without a tame! as if tame
were a thing-name.
Another says ‘It imposed absolute limits upon the
choice of positions.’ What are absolute limits if absolute
(from absolvo, to offloosen) means offloosened from
all check and all limits?
A man writes of ‘a photograph reproduced by a new
permanent process.’ Is it the process or the sunprint
that is permanent?
Preposterous, foreaft, as when what should be præ,
foremost, is put post or behind; whereas a writer gives[38]
a structure as ‘preposterously overgrown,’ as if ‘preposterous’
meant only very much, vastly.
One takes irretrievable as nohow amended. If ‘retrieve’
is the French retrouver (to find again), ‘irretrievable’
would mean not to be found again; and ‘the irretrievable
defeat of the whole nation’ would be one which they
could not find again, as most likely they would not wish
to find it.
Twy-meanings.
From want of words in English, or of care, our
wording may seem to bear two meanings, as ‘John
played with Edwin, and broke his bat.’ The bat of
which boy?
‘One Robert Bone of Antony shot at a little bird
sitting upon his cow’s back, and killed it—the bird
(I mean), not the cowe.’—Carew.
Word-sameness (Synonyms).
Words of the same meaning are less often so than
they are so called; and we sometimes give lists of
synonyms showing the differences of their meanings.
A twin of words of one very same meaning is rather
evil than good; and if they are not of one very same
meaning they should not be given as such.
It may be that from a misunderstanding of the word
tautology, as the name of a bad kind of speech-trimming,
men have often shunned the good use of words.
The bad tautology from which speakers have been
so frayed seems to be the giving twice or many times,[39]
within one scope of thought-wording, the same matter
of speech in the same words.
It is true that it would not be good wording to say
‘John has sold John’s horse’ for ‘his horse’ since the
name-tokens are shapen to stand for foregiven names.
But where the same foreused word would give a very
clear—if not the clearest—meaning, there seems to be
little ground against the use of it.
‘I bought a horse on Monday and a donkey on
Tuesday, and sold the horse again at a gain on Thursday.’
Why should not the word horse take the latter
place as well as the word steed, or equine animal, or
‘more worthy beast’—or why should I not as well say,
‘An ass I want, and an ass I will buy,’ as ‘An ass I
want, and a donkey, or it or him, I will buy’?
It seems that much wrong is done to the Greek of
the Gospel by the putting, for the same Greek word,
sundry English ones at sundry passages; and by what
right do we try an Evangelist’s or an Apostle’s wisdom in
the use of the same word, by which he must have meant
to give the same meaning? or why should we make him
to mean by κρίσις, at one time, a trying of a soul, and at
another time a fordooming of him?
It is not any tautology to use near to each other a
thing-name and a mark-word which are only fellow stem-words,
as ‘As free, and not using your freedom for a cloke
of wickedness.’
2. Another care in speech-trimming is the choice of
words for their sound-sweetness (Gr. euphony) or well-soundingness,
or for speech-readiness.
Past, with the hissing s with t, is less sound-good[40]
than after; and aqueduct, with ct, is less well-sounding
than waterlode; nor is cataract softer than waterfall.
The hereunder given wordings were lately heard in a
law court:—
‘I can give you one or two instances of remarkable
intelligence in the cases of fat men’; and
A Juror—‘There are one or two fat men on the jury
(laughter).’
Dr. K.—‘I don’t think there are.’
How should these cases be treated? In the first
case, ‘one instances’ is a breach of word-matching, as
would be ‘two instance’; and in the latter, the word one
calls for man, and two for men. May we not better say,
‘I can give you at least one instance,’ or ‘I believe more
instances than one’?
‘A man who has already, and will still, render such
services will be,’ &c. Rendered is understood after has;
but how may the thought be worded without the two
puttings of the word render? Thus: ‘a man who will
still be, as he has already been, found to render,’ &c.
Penetrate means insink, inpierce. M. Gambetta writes,
‘After the heroic examples given by open towns, and by
villages only guarded by their firemen, it is absolutely
necessary that each town, each commune, shall pay its
debt to the national defence, and that all alike be penetrated
by the task which is imposed upon France.’ It
seems a queer speech-wording to take a task as a thing
that penetrates, though it might be undertaken.
A bad wording is often found with mark-words of the
higher pitch, as ‘Alfred was more clever, but not so
good, as John.’ ‘Not so good’ is an inwedged word-[41]cluster,
but the word-setting is bad, as ‘more clever’ calls
for the word than, not as; and ‘so good’ wants as, not
than. It would be better to say ‘Alfred was more
clever, but less good, than John.’ To try the word-setting
take out the wedge-words (‘but not so good’),
and you will have ‘Alfred was more clever as John.’
Dislike seems a bad word-shape. Mislike is the old
and true English one. Like is from lic, a shape, as
lich, the body of a dead man. ‘It liketh (licað) me well’
is ‘it shapes itself (looketh) to me well.’ ‘It misliketh me’
is ‘it misshapes itself to me’ (looks bad).
To seem is from the thing-name—sam, seam, seem,
body or mass—and ‘it seems to me’ is ‘it bodies itself to
me.’ ‘That ship seems to be a French one,’ or ‘that
man seems to be ill,’ bodies itself or himself to be a French
one or ill.
‘The house and the goods were burnt’; but ‘the
house with the goods was (not were) burnt,’ since it is
only the house that is in the speech-case, as the goods
are in the mate-case. ‘The house was burnt with the
goods.’
‘One of the children are come.’ No—is come.
The one only is come.
In our taking of time-words from the Latin in the
shape of the past participle, we get at last a queer shape
of word. Take the Latin reg- of rego, to reach or straighten,
as a line, and our word reck. From reg comes regtus,
rectus. Here the t answers to our d (German t of ed
and et). Then rec-t answers to reck’d. Now put on ed
to each, and rec-t becomes rec-t-ed, as in direc-t-ed; and
reck’d becomes reck-d-ed, showing that directed is truly[42]
direg-ed-ed, and too like reck-ed-ed, as ‘He reck-ed-ed
nought.’
We may often hear a man who is careful to speak
good English say ‘This rose smells very sweetly,’ for
sweet. The rose smells (gives out smell) as being itself
very sweet, not as smelling (taking in smell) in a sweet
way. To find which to use, the thing-markword or the
under-markword, put ‘as being’ after the time-word, as
‘This rose smells (as being itself) sweet,’ not sweetly.
‘Can you smell now? you had, the other day, lost
your smelling?’ ‘Yes, I smell very nicely.’ Not I smell
as being myself very nice. A rose cannot smell any other
thing, and so cannot smell it nicely.
‘Mary sings very charmingly,’ but ‘Mary looks very
charming.’
‘John looks pale,’ but ‘John looks very narrowly
into that gold-work.’
‘I can taste well,’ ‘That peach tastes good.’
To have seen a man at a bygone time would mean
that the seeing was before that bygone time; but we sometimes
hear a man say, ‘I should (yesterday) have been
very glad to have seen you (if you had called yesterday).’
That is, by wording, ‘I should have been very glad
(yesterday) to have seen you (at a time before yesterday),’
not to see you yesterday; and yet that is what
the speaker means. ‘I should have been very glad
(yesterday) to see you (yesterday),’ or ‘I should be very
glad to-day to have seen you yesterday.’
3. Odd word-shapes are not in the main choice-worthy.
Our time-word go is of unwontsome conjugation, as[43]
its foretime shape went is not shapen from go, but is a
shape of another word, wend.
So the forlessening name, leveret for a hareling, and
cygnet for a swanling, are unwontsome, as being words of
another speech.
4. There is a greater or less freedom of word-shifting
(Gr. anastrophe, up-shifting or back-shifting), as up in
‘Fasten it up well,’ ‘fasten it well up’; or back in ‘He
brought back the saw,’ or ‘he brought the saw back’;
‘There is none to dispute my right,’ or ‘my right there
is none to dispute.’
Why should not English, like other tongues, more
freely form words with headings of case-words, as
downfalls, incomings, offcuttings, outgoings, upflarings, instead
of the awkward falls-down, comings-in, cuttings-off,
goings-out, flare-ups; or offcast (for cast-off) clothes;
or a downbroken (for a broken-down) schoolmaster;
outlock or outlocking (for a lock-out); the uptaking beam
(for the taking-up beam) of an engine?
Oddly-shapen or Oddly-taken Words.
Mongrel (hybrid) words, or words partly from one
tongue and partly from another.
Twy-speechwords are a sore blemish to our English,
as they seem to show a scantiness of words which would
be a shame to our minds; as,
Sub-warder for under-warder.
Pseudo-sailor for sham-sailor.
Ex-king for rodless or crownless king.
Prepaid for forepaid.
Bi-monthly for fortnightly or every fortnight.
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Wordiness (Verbosity).
As ‘The train ran with extraordinary velocity,’ for
‘the train ran very fast.’
‘Alfred did the business with perfect fidelity;’ for
‘Alfred did the business faithfully.’
Thence much of the wordiness of our written, if not
spoken, composition.
The ‘New York Times’ thus explains how it was that
the flames got to the roof in the burning of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel:—‘Fire always is aspirant, the sole exception
being where incandescent masses fall down, and
so act as a medium of ignition.’
The hard breathing (aspirate) is often wrongly dropped
or misput by less good speakers; but, while the upper
ranks laugh at them for their mistakes, they themselves,
like our brethren of Friesland and Holstein, often drop
it from words to which it of right belongs, and mainly
from the hard-breathed W or the Saxon HW (our
WH).
What, | wat (Hols.) |
When, | wanne (Fri.) |
Where, | wâr (Fri.) |
Wheel, | weel (Fri.) |
Whelp, | welp (Fri.) |
While, | wile (Fri.) |
White, | wit (Fri.) |
(It is bad.) |
Shall we soon hear ‘Wet the ’ook with a wetstone’
for ‘Whet the hook with a whetstone’?
Some Englishmen would say, ‘The ’ammer is on the
hanvil’; and some have been known to say, ‘’enry ’it
’orace with the ’ollow of ’is ’and,’ for ‘Henry hit Horace
with the hollow of his hand.’
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English mark-timewords (participles) are of two
kinds—one of an ongoing time-taking, as ‘the rising
sun’; and another of the ended time-taking, as ‘the
risen sun’; and they are of a few sundry shapes, some
ending with -en, -n, as broken, and others ending with
-ed, -d; and some without an ending, as cut.
1. In -en, those which are of one breath-sound, and
moulded so that the bygone time-shape takes the sound
(7) o[2]:—
Bore, | borne. |
Broke, | broken. |
Chose, | chosen. |
Clove, | cloven. |
Drove, | driven. |
Froze, | frozen. |
Rode, | ridden. |
Rose, | risen. |
Shore, | shorn. |
Smote, | smitten. |
Spoke, | spoken. |
Stole, | stolen. |
Strode, | stridden. |
Strove, | striven. |
Swore, | sworn. |
Tore, | torn. |
Throve, | thriven. |
Trode, | trodden. |
Wore, | worn. |
2. Some one-sounded and moulded time-words, of
the sound (8) in the shape for bygone time, take -en, -n;
as,
Draw, | drew, | drawn. |
Grow, | grew, | grown. |
Know, | knew, | known. |
Throw, | threw, | thrown. |
Flow, | flew, | flown. |
Slay, | slew, | slain. |
Unmoulded time-words take -ed, but a few of them
take -ed or -en; as,
Grave, | graved, | graved, |
| | graven. |
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These following, as is shown by the Saxon, ought to
take -ed rather than -en:—
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 mark-word
shapes are the same as those for bygone time.
- Cast.
- Cost.
- Cut.
- Hit.
- Let.
- Put.
- Rid.
- Set.
- Shoot.
- Shut.
- Split.
- Spread.
- Shed.
Shortened Shapes (p. 23).
- Bred.
- Crept.
- Dealt.
- Fed.
- Fled.
- Left.
- Lost.
- Slept.
- Sped.
- Spilt.
- Swept.
- Wept.
One-sounded root time-words are mostly endingless
in their mark-word shape:—
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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 For- hereafter.
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.
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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 fornaying;
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).
Alone. All-án, all-one:—‘Nen manniska buta God
al ena.γράψον’—W. Friesic. ‘No man, but God all-one (alone.)’
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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).
Amphibious. Twy-breath’d, twy-aired: by lungs and
gills.
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
Anagram. A letter-shuffling; as, out of ‘1234
make ‘mane,’ or of ‘march’ to make ‘charm.’
make ‘3214
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.
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Ancestor. Fore-elder, kin-elder.
Animate. To quicken.
Annals. Year-bookings.
Annihilate. To fornaughten.
Anniversary. Year-day.
Annuity. Year-dole.
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, foreold 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.’
Aphæresis. Foredocking of a word; as, pothecary
for apothecary, nob for knob.
Aphorisms. Thought-cullings.
Apocope. End-lopping; as mortal for mortalis,
send for send-an.
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Apodosis. The hank time-taking to a hinge one
(protasis):—‘If ye ask (hinge), ye shall receive (hank).’
Aposiopésis. A tongue-checking; as, ‘Do you think——but
I reck not what you think.’
Apostrophe. An offturning.
Appellative (name). A call-name.
Appendix. Hank, hank-matter.
Apposition. A twy-naming, a putting of two names
for one thing; as, ‘The dog Toby.’
Aptote. Casemarkless.
Aqueduct. Waterlode.
Arbitrator. Daysman (Job ix. 33).
Armistice. A weapon-staying, weapon-stay, war-pause.
Articulation. Breath-penning.
Aspirate. A breathing, hard breathing.
Assimilate. To make of the same sam (form of
matter) or lic (bodily form of a thing). To assimilate
food, to forselfen it, to make it into a man’s self.
Asylum has with us widely shifted its first meaning.
An asylon was a sanctuary where a man was asylos, not
to be pulled away (from a, sylao) by a foe. Now it often
means a place whence a man cannot get away.
Asyndeton. Linklessness. The putting of words
without link-words; as, ‘Faith, hope, charity,’ for ‘Faith
and hope and charity.’
Asyndeton puts side by side
Strong words, by ne’er a linkword tied.
Atmosphere. Welkin-air.
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Attraction. A fordrawing, a drawing of a word
out of its true case or tale by another word to which it
is nearer than to the one which it should match; as,
‘Neither of the men are (for is) come.’ Where the time-word
would most likely have been drawn into the somely
shape by its nearness to men.
Attraction may be misdrawing.
Augment. An eking, eking on or out.
Auxiliary. Outeking or helping.
Be- (a fore-eking, meaning by, to, about). Bebutton
a coat, to put buttons to it; becloke school-children,
give them clokes; becloud, obnubilate; beflood, inundate;
behem, bebound or circumscribe; bereek, fumigate.
Belligerent. War-waging.
Bibulous. Soaksome.
Bicornous. Twy-horned.
Bidental. Two-teeth, two-teethed.
Bilateral. Two-sided:—‘These articles would be
considered a public bilateral contract, and would form
the subject of an agreement with the Powers having
Catholic subjects.’ Bilateral contract is put for bipartite,
a contract by or between two sides, or of men of two
sides; but it would seem that the Romans did not call
the two sides in a contract or cause latera, but partes—‘Parte
utrâque auditâ.’—Plin. Jun.
Latera are the sides of a body or space.
Binocular. Two-sighted.
Bipennated (as an axe). Twy-bladed.
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Botany. Wortlore.
Cardinal (numbers). Tale-numbers; as, one, two,
three.
Catachresis. A misuse (of a word); as, an iron
milestone; a parricide for one who has killed his mother;
dilapidated for a ragged coat.
Chemistry. Matter-lore, the science of matter.
Chronology. Time-lore.
Cinereous. Ash-grey.
Circular (a trade-circular). A touting-sheet or -bill.
Circumference. Rim, rimreach.
Circumflex. A roundwinding, a winding of the
voice up and down again.
Clause. A word-cluster in a thought-wording.
Cognate. Kin, akin. Cognate breath-pennings;
as, T, D, both on the roof.
Collective (name). That of a cluster or a many
or a body of single things; as, a club, a herd.
Colon. Gr. kōlon, a limb or member. A mark for a
limb, or marked share of a thought-bewording.
Colophon. Book-end.
Comma. Gr. komma, a cut or share. A mark for the
offcutting of small shares of a discourse.
Complement. An upfilling or outfilling in words.
Compound. Clustered or a cluster, a clustered word,
as horseman, or a thought-wording of two or more
smaller ones.
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Concord. A matching.
Concrete. Matterly.
Conditional (mood). Hinge-mood (p. 34).
Conjugation (of a time-word). The forfitting of it,
the fortrimming of it.
Conjunction. A link-word.
Conjunctive. Linked, byholding.
Consonant. A letter for any breath-penning.
Construction. A word-setting, speech-trimming
(see p. 36).
Contraction. An updrawing:—I’ll for I will, sinn’d
for sinnèd.
Co-ordinate. Rank-mate, row-mate.
Copula. A link or bond.
Correlative (words). Mate-words.
Crasis. Sound-blending, sound-welding.
Dactyl. Gr. daktylos. A foot (in verse) of one long
and two short sounds, or of one high and two low
sounds, as cheerily.
Dative. Giving.
Deciduous (plant). Fallsome. (Does it mean that
only the leaves fall, or that the whole stem falls?) An
elm is summer-green or leaved, and winter-sear. Holly
is ever-green or winter-leaved. Parsley or the nettle is
summer-stemm’d and winter-fallsome.
Decimate. To tithe:—‘Breech-loading rifles would
so decimate columns.’ Decimate (decimo, from decem, ten,[55]
in Latin) was to take for death every tenth man of a body
that had behaved very badly. The word decimate is now
used very loosely, as meaning to cut up.
Defective. Wanting of something of its kind.
Defective (verb). Wanting of some time-shapes, as
quoth, must, go. The foretime shape of go (gang) would
be, as that of an unmoulded time-word, goed; and goed,
a worn shape of the older ‘gaode,’ is found in northern
folk-speech, with yowed (Saxon eode.) Gang makes
ganged.
Deficiency. Underodds. Excess, overodds.
Define. L. de, off; finio, to mark. To offmark.
Demagogue. Folk-leader, folk’s-ringleader, folk’s-reder.
Democracy. Folkdom.
Dental. L. dentes, teeth. A dental breath-penning
is one more or less on the teeth; as, eth, ef.
Dependency. Beholdingness:—‘As if one member
would continue his wellbeing without beholdingness to the
rest.’—Carew.
Depilatory. Hairbane.
Depletion. Unfullening.
Depopulate. Unfolk, forwaste.
Deport. Behave.
Deposit (of money). Earnest, pledge, bewaring.
Deprave. Forshrew, forwarp.
Depraved. Wicked.
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Desecrate. Unhallow.
Desolate. Forloned.
Deter. Forfray.
Deteriorate. Worsen.
Develop. Unfold, unroll.
Diacritical. Offmarking, offskilling, sunder-clearing.
Diæresis. An outsundering or outopening, or foropening
or forsundering, of a sound into two; as,
L. sylva, syl-wa, into syl-u-a.
Diæresis splits sounds in two,
As if for true you said tri-u.
Diagram. A draught, offdrawing.
Dialect. A sunder-speech, a folk-speech, a fortongueing.
Diaphanous. Thoroughshining, thoroughshowing.
Dictionary. A word-book.
Didactic. Teaching, teachsome.
Disease. The Saxon-English had about fifty pure
Teutonic names of diseases, to the main of which we
now give Latin names. They were ranked under some
few head-words.
Cwealm (qualm) meant mostly a deadly or many-killing
epidemic, as the plague or cholera, which they
would call a mancwealm (manqualm). Of this word we
have left only qualm with qualmish.
Adl (our addle) was another main word for disease,
as an unsoundness. From this word we have addle-headed and an addled egg.
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Coða, coðe, was another main word for a disease.
Hence (Dorset) a cothed sheep.
Weorc, werc (our wark), was a disease of pain or
achingness, as the gout or colic.
Seoc, syc, meant any sickness in which a man sinks
down on his bed or is off his legs.
Braec or breach was also given for some ailings.
To these words were set others of the parts of the
body which they took, or of some other marks.
Stic-adl, stitch.
Sid-adl (side-addle), pleurisy.
Lengten-adl, lent-adl, typhus.
Hip-werc (hip-wark), sciatica.
Hrop-werc (bowel-wark, belly-wark (York)), colic.
Fylle seoc, falling sickness.
Lifer seoc, liver sickness.
Lifer-adl (Aelfric), liver-addle.
Milte-seoc (Aelfric), milt-sickness.
Lenden-wyrc (Aelfric), loin-wark.
Mete-afluing (Aelfric), atrophy.
Wylde-fyr (wildfire) (Aelfric), erysipelas.
Dissipate. Forscatter.
Distribution (of prizes). Outdealing, fordealing,
outgiving:—‘Uetdieling fen da pryzen.’—Frs. (outdealing
of the prizes.)
-dom (an ending). It is our word doom, from deem,
and means a state or outreach of free judgment or
power; as, kingdom, freedom.
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-dom. ‘The scoundreldom and the rascality of a
great city.’ Scoundrelhood. Dom (from deman, to judge
or rule) would be good for kingdom, popedom, sheriffdom,
or mayordom. Scoundreldom would mean the
might of scoundrels as ruling or judging.
Domicile. Abode, wonestead.
Ecthlipsis. An outcasting or outstriking, as of a
sound; as, ‘Sing th’ Almighty’s praise’ for ‘the Almighty’s,’
or ‘I’ll go’ for ‘I will go.’
Ecthlipsis happens where one leaves
Out sounds, or for the eaves says th’ eaves.
Elative (case). The fromward case; as, ‘He came
from the house.’
Electricity. Matter-quickness; not speed, but liveliness.
The word electricity means, as a word, only
amberishness.
Ellipsis. An outleaving, as of a word understood;
as, ‘I went to St. Paul’s’ (church).
Ellipsis is of any word
Well understood, but yet not heard.
-el (an ending). It means smallness or slightness:—Dazzle,
to daze; fraze, frizzle; nose, nozzle (p. 18).
Embrasure. Gun-gap, cannon-gap.
Emphasis. Speech-loudening, speech-strain.
Emporium. Warestore.
Enallage. Case-shifting, an onchanging, as of a
word or case into or for another; as, ‘He was father to[59]
(or of) the fatherless.’ ‘The child took the toy in (or
with) her hand.’
Enallagē takes word or case,
To put it in another’s place.
-en-ing (an ending). It means a becoming such;
as, blacken, to make or become black; blackening, the
becoming black.
The ending -en-ing differs from -ness, -en-es, as in
blackness, which means the having become such.
Enthesis. An insetting.
Epenthesis. An inputting or inthrusting or infoisting
of a sound or clipping into a word.
Epenthesis, for little good,
Infoisteth aught, as l in could.[3]
Epithet. A mark-word put to a thing; as, ‘The
far-shooting Apollo,’ ‘the white-blossom’d sloe.’
Equilibrium. Weight evenness.
Equivalent. Worth evenness.
-er-r (an ending). It means outeked in size or
time:—Chatter, to chat much; clamber, to climb much;
wander, to wind about (pp. 18, 59).
Esculent (plant). Meatwort.
Etymology. Word-building, word-making, word-shapening.
Euphemismus. A fair wording, or the putting of
bad or unworthy things in a fairer light by words of less[60]
evil meanings; as, ‘I did time’ for ‘I was in prison.’
‘A government man’ for ‘a convict.’
By euphemismus men are glad
To make a bad case seem less bad.
Euphony. Sound softness, sound sweetness.
Exalt. Forheighten:—‘Sa hwa him selma forheaget’
(whoever himself forheightens).—Friesic (Matt xxiii. 12).
Excrescence. Outgrowth.
Exegetical. Outclearening.
Exordium. Outsetting, outset.
Expansion. Outbroadening of wild or overwrought
fullness readily becomes a bad kind of wordiness:—‘Farmer
Stubbs drank beer,’ ‘The votary of Demeter,
who rejoiced in the name of Stubbs, indulged in potations
of the cereal liquor’; or ‘He received me with
the most lively indications of amity’ for ‘He received me
very kindly’; or for ‘He owes ten thousand pounds,’
‘He is in a state of indebtedness to the extent of ten
thousand pounds’; ‘He warned the hunters off his land,’
‘He conveyed to the votaries of Diana a strong admonition
that they would not be permitted to prosecute their
sport within his domain.’
Faculty. Makingness.
Filiaceous. Threaden.
Flexible. Bendsome.
Fluctuate. Waver.
Foliate. Leafen.
For-. The fore-eking of forgive, forbear, is a most[61]
useful one. It is the Anglo-Saxon for, the German ver,
and the Latin per, and means off or away.
For-go, per-eo, to go off or away.
Per-suadeo (L. suadeo, from suavis), to soften or
sweeten off.
Foreshorten and forego should be forshorten and
forgo.
Forceps. Tonglings, nipperlings.
Fore- (a fore-eking). Foredoom, predestinate; fore-token,
portent, omen (p. 61).
Fossil. A forstonening.
Frangible. Breaksome.
Garrulity.[4] Wordiness, talksomeness.
Genealogy. Kin-lore, kinhood-lore.
Genitive (case). The offspring case (p. 30).
Genuflexion. Knee-bowing. Much has been said
(in the law trials about posture in the administration of
the Holy Communion) of genuflexion. A genuflexion
is any knee-bowing, but all knee-bowing is not kneeling,
which is knee-grounding.
Glossarist. A word-culler.
Glossary. Gr. glossa, tongue, speech. A word-list or word-list:—‘Mei en lyst vin oade spreckworden’
(with a list of old saws).—Friesic.
Grandiloquent. High-talking.
Gratuitous. Out of kindness. Gratia is good will,[62]
free kindness; and gratuitus is freely bestowed of gratia,
without hire or reward. But a writer says that an attack
of slander on a woman’s purity ‘was gratuitous,’ or of
gratia or good will, without hire or reward, as if gratuitous
meant without grounds of malice.
Hendiadys. One-in-twice. A wording of one thing
at twice, or as two things; as, ‘I heard shouting and
men’ for ‘shouting of men.’ ‘An arm and strength’ for
‘a strong arm.’ A fortwaining.
Hendiadys will give you two
Clear words where one alone would do.
Hexameter. Gr. hex, six; metron, measure, metre.
A metre in Greek and Latin verse, lines of six feet.
-hood (an ending). It means a state of being,
rank, or standing among other things:—Childhood, manhood.
Horizon. Sky-sill, sky-line.
Hybrid (word). L. hybrida, a mongrel.
Hydrophobia. Water-awe.
Hyperbaton. Gr. hyper, over; baino, to fare, go.
An overfaring, an overshifting of words out of their
more wonted or better ranking; as, ‘What for,’ for
‘For what.’ A ‘speaking out’ for an ‘outspeaking.’
Hypallage. Word-shifting, case-shifting; as, ‘We
gave wind to our sails’ for ‘our sails to the wind.’
‘The men were put to the sword,’ though also ‘the
sword was put to the men.’
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Hyperbolē. An overcasting or overshooting of the
truth; as, ‘The train went as swift as lightning.’
Hyperbolē, less right than wrong,
O’ershoots the truth with words too strong.
Hyphen. A tie-stroke.
Hysterologia. A foreafter wording, forebehind or
hinderforemost wording; as, ‘He earned a florin, and
worked all the day,’ whereas he worked first, and so
earned the florin.
Hysterologia’s careless mind
Puts last for first, and fore for hind.
Iambus. Gr. A foot (in verse) of one short or low
and one long or high sound; as, ago, a low-high twin.
Idiom. Gr. idioma, from idios, one’s own. A folk’s-wording,
a set form of words of any one speech or set
of men; as, ‘How do you do?’ Fr.: ‘Comment vous
portez-vous?’ (How do you bear yourself?) ‘I have just
dined.’ Fr.: ‘Je viens de dîner’ (I come from to dine).
Imperative (mood). The bidding mood.
Impersonal (verb). A time-word without a thing-name;
as, ‘It lightens,’ ‘it thunders,’ ‘it freezes,’ ‘it
thaws.’ A thingnameless or a deederless time-word.
Impertinence may be meddlesomeness in what non
pertinet, does not belong to one, or meddlesomeness in a
deed or speech which non pertinet, does not hold by the
matter under thought, unbyholdingness.
Impertinent. Meddlesome, unbyholding.
Inarticulate. Unbreathpenned.
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Incandescent. White-hot, heat-whitened.
Inceptive (verbs). Belonging to ontaking or beginning.
Becomesome time-words; as, L. albesco, to become
white; English whiten, to become or make white. In
Greek the ending of the becomesome words is -iz or -z.
Orphanízo, to make or become elderless, or an orphan.
Indefinite. L. in, un; finio, to offmark, outmark.
Unoffmarked, unbounded.
Indicative (mood). The surehood mood.
Infinitive (mood). L. in, un; finitus, bounded,
marked. The unboundsome thing-free mood of a time-word
free of anything; as, to love, to see.
Initial. Word-head.
Injury. Injuria is a moral wrong (summum jus
summa injuria). Do we not wrest its meaning in
such wording as ‘The wind has done much injury to my
house-roof’ or ‘injured my flowers’? How can the
behaviour of the wind be made out to be a moral wrong,
even if it be a hurt?
Instrumentive, instrumental (case). The tool-case
or means-case, that of the tool or means of a deed; as,
‘He cut the wood with a knife.’
Interest (of money). Money-rent, loan-meed, loan-pay.
Interest. Care:—‘I do not take any interest in
him or it.’ ‘I do not becare him or it.’ ‘Wha kara
unsis?’ (what care to us) (Mœso-goth).—Matt. xxvii. 4.
What a word to be taken as a thing-name is interest,
‘it is of odds’! The folk-speech, ‘It is of no odds to
me,’ gives the meaning of ‘meâ non interest.’
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Intransitive. Not overgoing, as time-takings that
do not reach forth to another thing; as, to sleep.
Inversion. L. inverto, to turn up. An end-shifting:—‘Thee
at morn, and Thee I praise at night,’ for ‘I praise
Thee at morn, and Thee at night.’ A shifting of the
ends of a wording.
Irony. Gr. eirōneia, from eiron, a shammer. A good
wording for a bad meaning, mock-praise; as, ‘That was
a good shot,’ meaning a very bad one. ‘He is a nice
man,’ meaning the reverse of nice. ‘How glorious was
the king of Israel to-day!’ meaning how inglorious.
-ism. The stump -ism of the Greek -ismos seems to
be used very loosely. -ismos is from the ending -izō of
ontaking or inceptive time-words, and where there is no
time-word ending in -izō there is not, I should think,
any thing-name in -ismos; as, chloros, green; chlorizō, to
become green; chlorismos, a becoming green. So, if
liberalism is a becoming liberal, conservatism is a becoming
conservat, which might seem to mean conservatus,
one conserved, rather than a conserver. Is chartism a
becoming a chart? and what is Londonism, a becoming
London or a Londoning? and, if so, what is a Londoning?
We have for -ismos some English endings, as -ening,
in blackening; besides -hood, -ship, and -ness, and many
others of sundry kinds.
For -ism, taken in names bestowed with very slight
praise, we may take -ishness; as, Hebraism, Hebrewishness;
Grecism, Greekishness; Latinism, Latinishness;
Londonism, Londonishness; solœcism, folkswording. (On
‘Solœcism,’ see Aul. Gell. v. 20.)
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Iterative. Going over again and again. Iterative
time-words, that mean to take many shorter times in
time-takings of the same kind; as, to chatter, chat
much; clamber, wander.
Labial (letter). L. labium, lip. A lip breath-penning.
Laxative. Loosensome.
Lecture. A lore-speech.
Lenis. L. soft. The soft breathing is an unaspirate
one, such as a in and, not ha in hand.
Letter. L. litera; Sax. bóc-staf, a book-staff. It is
bad that the same word letter should be used for a letter
of the alphabet and an epistle, the old English word for
which is a brief, as it is in German and West Friesic.
It was also the name of the king’s letter for gathering of
help-money in the church; though now it is the name
only of a barrister’s letter of instruction.
Lingual. L. lingua, the tongue. Belonging to the
tongue.
Literature. Book-lore.
Lithography. Stone-printing.
Locative (case). L. locus, stead, place. The stead
or stow-case; as, ‘In London,’ ‘At church.’
Logic. Redelore.
-m, -om, -um. A word-ending, a form of the Greek
one -ma, as in prag-ma, from prasso; and of the Latin
-men, as in flu-men, from fluo. Words so ended
meant mostly the outcome of the time-word, and
were at first thing-names; and so as time-words they[67]
were, as most of them yet are, weak ones. From roots
ending, I believe, in -ing came[5]
Blow | Bloom. |
Cling (root) | Clome (clay or clayen pottery), clam, climb. |
Cring (root) (to bend) | Crome (a dung-pick with bent prongs). |
Dunt, ding(root) | Dam, dim, dumb, damp (fire). |
Go (with quick stirrings), —ging (root) | Game. |
Glow | Gleam, gloom. |
Grow | Groom (a growing or now full-grown youth?). |
Hollow | Haulm, helm, helmet. |
Harry | Harm. |
Lose, lithe, (ling r.) | Limp, limb, lime, loam. |
Shriek | Scream. |
Sew | Seam. |
Slack,—sling (root) | Slam (a slackness or looseness in matter or going; slam of a gate; a slack swing, as unguided by a hand). |
Slack | Slime, slim. |
[68]Stiff or stout | Stem. |
Stray or Stretch on | Stream.[6] |
Tang, ting (reach on) | Team, time, and timer, timber (a very ontanging stick). |
Thick | Thumb (the thick finger). |
Machine. An old English word for a machine is
ginny or jinny which seems to be a fellow-stem to gin,
and to mean to go, not as in onfaring (locomotion), but
as in the way of a machine.
Magnificent. High-deedy, high-doing.
Magniloquent. High-talking.
Mechanics. Matter-might.
Metalepsis. Gr. metalambano, to take over. A use-shifting
of a word, a taking of a word over from its
common to another meaning; as, ‘Seven harvests ago’
for ‘seven summers or years.’
Metaphor. Gr. metaphora, from metaphero to carry
over. A figure of speech, the overcarrying of a name
from a thing to which it belongs to another to which
it does not belong; as, ‘The Shepherd of Israel’ for
‘the Lord.’ ‘The father of the people’ for ‘a good
king.’ ‘Eos Cymru’ (the Welsh nightingale) for ‘a fine
Welsh songstress.’ ‘A man burning with anger.’
Metathesis. Gr. meta, with or against; thesis, a
putting. A penning-shift, as that of putting each of two[69]
pennings in the stead of the other; as, waps, wasp;
haps; hasp; though the first of the two shapes is the
older in English.
Metathesis is where a word
Shifts pennings, as in crud for curd.
Meteor. Welkin-fire.
Metonymy. Gr. meta, off; onoma, a name. An
offnaming, name-shifting, a wording that puts for a thing-name
the name of some belonging—whether cause or
effect or aught else—of the thing; as, ‘He reads Horace’
for ‘his works.’ ‘He lives by the sweat of his brow’ for
‘work.’ ‘Land holden by the Crown’ (Queen). ‘The
power of the pen’ for ‘writers.’
Miosis. Gr. meiōsis, a forlessening. A wording by
which a thing is lessened off; as, ‘Will you give me a
crumb of bread and a drop of drink?’
Miōsis, a lessening,
Makes of a great a smaller thing.
Monitor. A warner. Ware-en-er, who makes ware.
Monosyllable. A breath-sound.
Multiloquous. Wordy, talksome.
Negative (word). L. nego, to deny. Fornaysome.
Nomenclature. Benaming, name-shapening.
Nominative. L. nomen, a, name. The name-case,
speech-case.
Noun. L. nomen, a name; Fr. nom. A thing-name,
thing-word, name-word.
Objective. Objective case. A name commonly given
to the time-giving thing when it is not the speech-case.
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Onomatopœia. A mocking name. The making of
words from sounds; as, to hiss, a peewit or cuckoo from
the sound it makes.
Optative (mood). The wish mood; as, ‘Oh! that
I had wings.’ ‘May you be happy.’
Out- (a fore-eking). Outban, exile; outfaring,
peregrination, exodus; outhue, outliken, depict or draw.
Over- (a fore-eking). Overbold, audacious; overhang,
impend; overweigh, preponderate.
-p, -b, -f (endings). They mean small in kind or
short in time:—Poke, pop, poke quickly; dip, a small
dive; slip, a small slide; rip, to rive quickly.
Palindrome. Gr. palin, back; dromos, a running.
A set of words which read the same backwards as forwards;
as, ‘Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel,’ or ‘Roma
tibi subito motibus ibit amor.’
A palindrome’s the same as read
From head to tail, or tail to head.
Palpitate. Throb.
Panacea. Allheal.
Paradigm. Gr. paradeigma, an offshowing, outshowing,
a plan. A table of word-shapes.
Paragogē. An outbringing or outlengthening of a
word.
A paragogē will be found
Where words are lengthened by a sound.
‘Such a sweet pett as this
Is neither far nor neary.
Here we go up, up, up;
Here we go down, down, downy.
Here we go backwards and forwards,
And here we go round, round, roundy.’
Old Song.
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‘In playhouses, full six-o,
One knows not where to fix-o.’
Old Song.
Paragraph. An offwriting, a wording-share; such
a share of a piece of writing as, if it were offwritten,
would not want anything of a full meaning.
Paraphrase. New bewording; a turning of a piece
of writing into other words, often more if not clearer
than those of the writer. A paraphrase, while it is meant
to clearen, may falsen the paraphrased matter. The
following paraphrase from an old written sermon of (as
I believe) an old Dorset divine, may be a good sample of
new bewording:—
‘God, I thank Thee, that I am not as other men
are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this
Publican: I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all
that I possess.’
Expanded or paraphrased:—
‘With great gratitude, O God (said the Pharisee), I
contemplate my own superior attainments. How free
is my mind from a variety of black offences which invade
the consciences of others! Extortion, injustice, and
adultery are crimes (said he, striking his breast) which
have no harbour here. Who can lay to my charge the
neglect of any religious duty? Are not my tithes paid
with cheerfulness, and my fasts observed with sanctity?’
‘And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift
up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon
his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.’
‘The Publican, on the other hand, with every mark
of the deepest contrition, stood abashed in a corner of[72]
the temple. Conscious of his own demerits, he was
afraid to raise his eyes to that Being who sees the least
degree of impurity with offence. After many ineffectual
struggles to form the sighing of a contrite heart into the
language of prayer, his efforts ended in this one exclamation,
God be merciful to me a sinner.’
Parenthesis. An inwedging of a sentence within
another:—‘Thou sayest—but they are but vain words—I
have strength for the war.’
Parody. A song-mocking.
Paronomasia. A kind of play on words of more or
less like sound, though of sundry meaning; as, ‘Though
last not least.’ ‘Non amissi sed præmissi’ (said of
friends deceased), ‘Not forgone but foregone.’
Paronomasia is found
In pairs of words of some like sound.
Participle. A thing-marking shape of the time-word.
Particle. A wordling, a small shapefast word.
Patronymic. Gr. pater, father, and onoma, name. A
surname or sirename of a man taken from the forename
of his father; as, John Richardson, Dafydd Ap-hoel,
Patrick Mac-Duff, Jeroboam Ben-Nebat.
Pedigree. Kin-stem, forekin-stem.
Penultimate. Last but one.
Perambulator (the child’s carriage). Push-wainling.
Perfect. Fordone, forended, full-ended.
Period, in rhetoric (redecraft) and speechcraft, is so[73]
called, as a speech-ring or speech-round, a full round of
thought-wording, in which the speech-meaning is kept
uphanging and more or less unclear, till the last word
or word-cluster by which it is clearly fulfilled; as,
‘(1) That among the sundry changes of the world (2),
(3) our hearts may surely there be fixed (4): (5) where
true joys are to be found (6).’ The whole thought-wording
is a period or speech-round. From (1) to (4)
is a limb (called in Greek a kōlon) and has a meaning,
though not a full one beyond which the mind awaits
nothing more. The word-cluster from (1) to (2) yields
no full meaning, and is called in Greek a komma (kopma),
a cutting or shareling. Thence we see the source of the
names and uses of the stops—the period (.), colon (:),
comma (,). The period marked the end of the period;
the colon that of the kolon; and the comma that of a
comma, or cutting of a colon.
The word seems to be often misused. A period (Gr.
periodos) of time or wording is rightly a running of it
round again to its like beginning; as, a week—from
Sunday round to Sunday; or a year—from January to
January.
A straight stretch of time or words is not truly a
period; as, a man’s life from birth to manhood is not
a ring-gate, beginning anew at childhood.
Periphrasis. Gr. peri, round; phrasis, a speaking.
A roundabout speaking of a thing instead of an outright
naming of it, a name-hinting; as, ‘The gentleman
at the head of Her Majesty’s Government’ for Lord B.
Personal (time-word); not an impersonal one; as, ‘It[74]
rains.’ ‘It snows;’ but one with a named time-taker, as
‘John rides.’
Perverse. Wayward, froward.
Pervious. Throughletting.
Petrify. To stonen, forstonen.
Philology. Speechlore.
Phonetic. Soundly.
Phonography, phonotypy. Sound-spelling. Surely
a photograph should be a phototype. Graphō is to
graze or grave along a body, but a photograph is given
by a plumb downstriking of rays of light—a typē and
not a graphē. With graphē and typē we may set a glyphē
(from glyphō), an outsmoothing of a shape, as that of
a figure from a block of stone. Glyphō is a fellow stem-word
to glykys, smooth, soft, or sweet.
Phrase. Gr. phrazo, to speak, say. A word-cluster,
a word-set, a cluster or set of byhanging words.
Pirate. Sea-robber, weeking, wyking, wicing (Gloss.
11 cent.). The wicings or weekings or vicings were so
called as lurking about in the bays, wicas, weeks, wykes,
or wiches.
Plagiary. A thought-pilferer.
Pleonasm. Gr. pleonazo, to fullen or overfullen. An
overwording; as, ‘A great [thing of a] boar’ for ‘a
great boar.’ ‘What [ever in the world] are you doing?’
‘Never [in all my whole life] have I seen the like.’
A pleonasm oft is heard
To strengthen speech by word on word.
Plocē. Gr. plokē, a twining or folding. A twining[75]
or folding of a foregiven name, of one meaning the same
name, in another; as, ‘Then Edwin was Edwin (or
himself) again.’ Worthy of himself. ‘Coal is now coal,’
i.e. scarce and costly.
By plocē you inweave a name
Once more with meaning not the same.
Plural (number). The somely (number).
Polyptoton. Gr. poly, many; ptotos, case. The
inbringing of fellow stem-words or root-words in sundry
cases or ways:—‘He, friendless once, befriended
friends.’
Posterity. Afterkin.
Postposition. A hinder case-word, a case-word put
after the thing-name; as, in Hindustani, panee-main,
water in; panee-sae, water from; panee-ko, water to.
Showing the source of case-endings.
Potential (mood). L. potentia, might, power. Mayly.
Predicate. The wording of the time-taking; as,
‘John walked twenty miles.’
Prefix. A fore-eking, a forewordling; as, be-set,
for-give, out-run.
Preposition. A case-word.
Preterite. Bygone, past.
Programme. A foredraught.
Pronoun (personal). A name-token, a stead-word.
Pronoun Adjective, mark-word.
Proper name. A one-head name.
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Prosopopœia. Gr. prosopon, face, person; poieo, to
make. The putting of an unmatterly or impersonal
thing as a person.
Prosopopœia shows your mind
Unlive things doing as mankind.
Protasis. The hinge time-taking.
Prototype. Foreshape, forepattern.
Punctuation. L. punctuatio, from puncta, points or
stops. The skill of the putting of stops, or of the
marking of voice-stoppings in speech. Bestopping. (See ‘Period.’)
Radicle. Rootling.
Reciprocal (verb). L. re, back, fro; ci, to this way.
To and fro verbs; as, ‘They helped each other.’
Rectify. Righten.
Reflective. Back-turning, as a time-taking which
comes back to the source of it; as, ‘John cut or hit
himself.’
Regimen. Government, overwielding of a thing by
another.
Religion. Faith-law.
Religious. On the true meaning of religiosus see
Aul. Gell. Noct. Att. iv. 9. He makes it mean withholden,
backbound from some uses. Religiosa delubra,
a shrine hallowed from common use; religiosus dies, a
day withholden, as unlucky, from great undertakings. A
religious man is one who is withholden by his faith and
conscience from bad deeds.
Restrain. Inhold, forhold.
Result. Outcome, outworking, backspring. Result[77]
(from resilio, to spring back) is neither in sound nor
meaning a better word than outcome or outworking or
froming, fromming.
Rhetoric. Rede-speech.
Rhythm. Gr. rhythmos, number, as number of clippings
or sounds in a line of verse. Metre, which
meant at first tale of sounds rather than sound matching,
which we call rime. Rime is not come to us from
the Greek, but is the Saxon rim or hrim, tale or number.
‘Manâ and misdædâ ungerím ealrâ’ (a tale, beyond
telling, of all wickednesses and misdeeds).—Sermo Lupi
ad Anglos.
‘Deer naet in da rime was’ (who was not in the
number).—Old Friesic Law.
Salubrious. Healthy, halesome.
Satellite. Henchman.
Scintillate. Sparkle.
Semi-detached houses. Twin-houses, a house-twin.
Sentence. L. sentio, to think, deem, feel. In
speech-craft, an uttering of a thought, one thought-wording.
Septuple. Sevenfold.
-sh (an ending). It means quickness and smartness;
as, clang, clash; crack, crash; fly, flash; go, gush;
hack, hash. In markwords it means somewhat such;—blackish,
boyish.
-ship (an ending). It means a shape or form of
being:—Friendship, mateship.
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Solœcisms. Gr. soloikismos, from the bad Greek
of the Soloikoi in Cilicia. A miswording, barbarism, or,
as an old Saxon gives it, ‘a miscweðen word,’ or a misquothing,
a misqueathing.
We in a solœcismus find
Miswording of a loreless mind.
Solstice. Sunsted. A.S. Sunanstede.
-some. The ending -some in such words as aimsome,
matchsome, yieldsome seems, as we look to its true first
meaning, to be a fitting one. A sam or som (some)
meant at first a body of mingled matter or things. In
its stronger meaning lumps of suet melted up into a
soft body would be a sam or som; and potatoes boiled
and mashed up would be a sam; and dough, if not flour
itself, is a sam or som.
In the wider meaning of the word an upgathering of
things, and even men, into a body or set is a sam or som.
Thence we have our word same as well as the ending
-some and the markword some:—‘Some in rags, and some
in jags, and some in silken gowns’ (a set or body in rags,
a set or body in jags, &c.).
Aimsome, yieldsome would mean of the aim or yield
or aiming or yielding set or body.
Sam or som gives our words same and so. ‘The
same man’ means the very man in sam or body or
being. ‘Are they Hebrews? so (same) am I.’ Of that
sam (am I). The Latin se is most likely a word of the
same root:—‘Lucius se amat’ (Lucius loves same or his
sam); and this is the meaning of our word self.
The Latin similis would mean of the sam or same[79]
kind; and ‘to summon (samen) men’ is to call them up
into a sam, ‘Suma êlanda thêr im likte’ (some islands
that pleased him).—Oera Linda Book.
Sophist. Wordwise.
Sophistry. Rede-guile, rede-cunning.
Spell. Sax. spellian, to tell, utter forth a word or a
set of words.
Spell. A message or bewording, as in Godspel
(Gospel), ‘the good message.’
-st (an ending). It strengthens the meaning, as it
does in blackest; blow, blast; brow, breast.
Stereography. Bulk-drawing.
Stereometry. Bulk-meting.
Stereotype. Block-type.
Subject. The speech-thing or thing under speech.
Subjunctive (mood). The hinge-mood; as, ‘If ye
ask, ye shall receive.’
Suffix. A wordling put on at the end of a word;
as, man-hood, good-ness, kind-ly. End-eking, an on-eking,
a word-ending.
Superlative. The highest pitch.
Supposititious. Underfoisted, undersmuggled.
Syllepsis. Gr. syn, up, together; lēpsis, a taking.
An uptaking, upmating, comprehension, as of a second
or third person with a first; as, ‘I (1) and my brother (3)
(we) learn Latin.’.
Syllepsis takes I, you, and he
As first persons, and all called we.
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Synalœpha. Gr. syn, up; aleipho, to smear. Sound-welding.
The welding up of two sounds into one, or
the end of one word into the head of the following. In
Latin verse—‘Conticuere omnes,’ ‘conticue͞r omnes,’
‘conticuere‿omnes’—uttering the e and om in the time
of one syllable. So in Italian—‘In prato‿in foresta,’ ‘Sia
l’alba‿o la sera,’ ‘Se dorme‿il pastor’—the o i, and
a o, and e i are uttered as one syllable. In English—‘Before
the‿Almighty’s throne.’
By synalœpha breath-sounds run
A couple to the time of one.
Syncope. The cutting of a penning from within a
word; as, ‘He ha-s’ for ‘he haves,’ ‘Gospel’ for ‘Godspel.’
The outcutting is truly an outwearing of the
clipping.
A clipping’s lost by syncope,
As subtle’s sounded minus b.
Synecdoche. Gr. syn, up; ek, out; dochē, a taking.
An outtaking or outculling, as of a share of a thing for
the whole, or the matter for the thing; as, ‘a hundred
heads’ for ‘a hundred men’; ‘twenty hands’ for ‘twenty
workmen’; ‘a cricketer’s willow’ for his ‘bat.’
Synonym. Gr. syn, together; onyma a name.
Synonyms are words or names of the same meaning,
twin-words; as, rabbit and coney, volume and tome,
yearly and annual, letter and epistle. Twains of words
are, however, less often synonyms than they are so
called.
Syntax. Speech-trimming. A trim is a fully right
or good state of a thing, the state in which it ought to[81]
be; and ‘to trim’ a thing is to put it in trim, or fully as
it ought to be. ‘To trim a boat,’ to set it as it ought to
be—upright, not heeling. ‘To trim a bonnet or dress,’
to put it fully as it ought to be. And so ‘to trim a
hedge’: a man may think that, because much of the
trimming of a hedge is done by cutting, a trimming is
therefore a cutting. ‘I am out of trim’; ‘to trim,’ as
a man in politics, albeit it may not be to set himself
morally as he ought to be, is to set himself as he thinks
that he ought to be for the nonce.
Tautology. Word-sameness, a saying over again of
the same thing or words.
Technical. Craftly.
Telegram. Wire-spell. (See Spell.)
Telegraph (the electric). Spell-wire.
Telescope. Spyglass.
Tense. Time.
Termination. A word-ending.
Tmesis. A word-cutting or splitting or outsundering;
as, ‘The child has overthrown the flower-pot.’ By word-cutting
or outsundering—‘The child has thrown the
flower-pot over.’
By tmesis you may oft outshare
A word’s two word-stems here and there.
Transitive is overfaresome; intransitive, unoverfaresome.
Triphthong. Gr. tri, three; phthongos, sound. A
threefold sound.
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Uncial. L. literæ unciales, text letters. Capital
letters.
Under. Undersea, submarine; underspan, subtend;
underslinking, subterfuge.
Up-. Upclashing, collision; upthrong, congregate.
Upmating. The upmating of the persons, called
in Greek syllepsis, touches the use of the personal
pronouns. A second or third person upmated with the
first is reckoned as first, and a third upmated with the
second is reckoned as second; as,
‘That boat belongs to my brother (3) and me (1).
We (1) bought it.’
‘That is known only to you (2) and me (1). We
know it.’
‘I saw you (2) and your brother (3). You (2) were
there.’
But persons are upmated as well from kindliness or
civility as from the calls of speech-craft. Thus a
speaker will often upmate himself with a hearer or
another, as a mother may upmate herself with her child
by we, instead of thou or you; as,
Here we go up, up, up;
Here we go down, down, downy;
Here we go backward and forward;
And here we go round, round, roundy—
though the going is only that of the child.
A young man may say to a girl friend, ‘How proud
we are,’ meaning ‘you are’; or a man may say of others
who might not be very brisk at work, ‘We are not very
strong to-day’; or a footman may upmate himself with
the heads of the house with such wording as ‘We do
not treat our guests so unhandsomely.’
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Vocabulary. L. vocabulum, a word. A word-list,
word-book, word-store.
Vocative (case). L. voco, to call. The call-case.
-y, -ig (an ending). It means eked with something:—Snowy,
with snow; dirty, with dirt.
Zeugma. Gr., a yoking. A yoking of two things
as to one time-word which would fit only one of them,
another being outleft; as, ‘The house which my own
money, and not which my father bequeathed,’ supply
bought after ‘money.’
The Power of the Word-endings.
Some of the small word-endings end themselves with
a dead breath-penning, and others with a half-penning.
The dead pennings seem to betoken, mostly, an ending,
or shortening, or lessening, in time or shape; while the
half-pennings do not seem to bound, or shorten, or lessen,
the meaning of their body-words.
Dead Pennings.
-ock. Hill-ock.
-ed. I walk-ed (the time-taking ended).
-ig, now -y. Wind-ig, wind-y (an eking of wind).
-op, -p; -ob, -b. Flap, flip, a quick flying; heap,
hop, hip, small highenings, or humps; pop out, to poke
out quickly; clap the hands, to close them quickly;
stub, a small stump; wallop, to wallow or well (roll) lightly,
and so as water from a spring, or in boiling. We may
think that we have two very fine words in envelope and
develope, whereas they seem to be nothing better than the[84]
Teutonic inwallop and unwallop, to roll in and unroll.
With wallow set the Latin volvo (walwo), to roll.
-t, -et. Forlessens.
Poke, | pocket. |
Ball, | bullet. |
Sock, | socket. |
Half-Pennings.
do not so strongly, if at all, betoken endingness, or
shortness, or smallness.
-m. A stem is of any length, but stump is short.
-en, -n. Golden, eked wholly in gold; blacken, to eke
on freely in blackness.
-ing, as in walking, does not betoken any ending or
shortening of a time-taking.
-er, -r, betokens eking out much in shape or time,
as:—
Chat, | chatter. |
Pat, | patter. |
Clate, | clatter. |
It so happens that while we have a dead penning, -ed,
for the ended time-taking, as, ‘he walked,’ we have a half-penning
for the ongoing time-taking, as, ‘he walketh.’ It
is true that -en, a half-penning, is put for -ed, as an ending
of some mark-time words, as brok-en, and that -el, -l,
a half-penning, may seem to mean either much or small,
as prate, prattle (prat-el). Time-words with these endings
in full length are weak.
- Bloss-om-ed,
- Black-en-ed,
- Wall-op-ed,
- Chat-er-ed,
- Flitt-er-ed,
- Pock-et-ed,
- Prat-el-ed
- (prattled).
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s strengthens the meaning of some root-heads, as:—
Melt, | smelt. |
Nip, | snip. |
Plunge, | splunge. |
Queeze, | squeeze. |
So, as an ending of the somely thing-name, it stretches its
meaning from that of one to some ones, as a hand,
hands—hands being more than a hand.
In the word-ending -st of black-est, the half-penning
s freely forstrengthens black, and the dead-penning t
seems to check its force, so that blackest means black
strengthened, though not unboundedly so, but blackest
of all the things taken with it.
-st has, I suppose, this meaning also as an ending
of thing-names or time-words, as ‘to boast,’ the meaning
of which is betokened by some other tongues to be to
bow out much the breast or fore-body, the token of
pride and boasting, as it is so often shown to our sight.
Bogan, to bow (Anglo-Saxon and Friesic), means ‘to
boast.’
Friesic—‘Thi mâgy bogade uppa sinra snôdhed.’
(The mâgy boasted (bowed) on his cunning.)—Oera
Linda Book.
‘Hia bogath ìmmer over geda êwa.’ (They boast
(bow) ever over good laws.)—Oera Linda Book.
The old British bard, Llywarch Hên, had in mind the
same token of pride:—
—gnawd dyn
Bronrain balch
(It is common for a proud (or boasting) man to be[86]
bow- or bulge-breasted); and in the Holderness (Yorkshire)
folkspeech they say ‘as bug (proud) as a dog wi’
two tails,’ and yet, to show that bug means a bow or
bowedness, they say ‘as bug as a cheese.’
The Goodness of a Speech.
The goodness of a speech should be sought in its
clearness to the hearing and mind, clearness of its breath-sounds,
and clearness of meaning in its words; in its
fulness of words for all the things and time-takings which
come, with all their sundrinesses, under the minds of men
of the speech, in their common life; in sound-sweetness
to the ear, and glibness to the tongue. As to fulness, the
speech of men who know thoroughly the making of its
words may be fullened from its own roots and stems, quite
as far as has been fullened Greek or German, so that they
would seldom feel a stronger want of a foreign word than
was felt by those men who, having the words rail and way,
made the word railway instead of calling it chemin de fer,
or, going to the Latin, via ferrea, or than Englishmen
felt with steam and boat, to go to the Greeks for the
name of the steamboat, for which Greek had no name at
all. The fulness of English has not risen at the rate of
the inbringing of words from other tongues, since many
new words have only put out as many old ones, as:—
(no saving of time here),
ignite, | kindle, |
annual, | yearly, |
machine, | jinny. |
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I have before me more than one hundred and fifty so
taken English law-words which were brought into the
English courts with the Norman French tongue; but
English speech did not therefore become richer by so
many words, because most of them thrust aside English
ones. Judge took the stead of dema; cause of sác; bail
of borh; and the lawyers said arson for forburning;
burglary, for housebreach; and carrucate, for ploughland;
and King Alfred gave to English minds the matter of
Gregory’s Pastoral with a greater share (nearly all) of
pure English words, than most English scholars could
now find for it.
On clearness, it is to be feared that, notwithstanding
the English may be clear in breath-sounds to the ear,
there is often a want of clearness to the mind from the
many pairs of words which have worn into the same
sound, such as:—
Bow, | bow, |
Doe, | dough, |
Lea, | lee, |
Pale, | pail, |
Sow, | sew, |
and others; and from the use of Latin and Greek and
other foreign words, which are used in other than their
true first meanings, or the meanings of which the common
folk do not understand.
Teleology is a word which I have just seen in a Dorset
paper, as for the matter of a lately given lore-speech,
‘the examination or the discussion of the purposes for
which things are created.’ Now, in English the word[88]
end means both a forending, or termination, and a purpose;
but I do not think that telos (end) or teleosis, in
Greek, means a purpose. Prothesis would most likely have
been put for it by a Greek.
The Latinish and Greekish wording is a hindrance to
the teaching of the homely poor, or at least the landfolk.
It is not clear to them, and some of them say of a
clergyman that his Latinised preaching is too high for
them, and seldom seek the church.
Swan is a clue to the meaning of swanling but none
of cygnet; and if a man knew that kyknos was the Greek
for swan he might still be at a loss for the meaning of -et,
which is not a Greek ending.
For sound-sweetness or glibness, we should shun, as
far as we can, the meeting of hard dead breath-pennings
of unlike kinds. We have in our true English too many
of them, and some of them from the dropping of the e
from the word-ending -ed, as in slep’t and pack’d (lip and
roof, and throat and roof pennings, and in both cases
hard dead pennings); and then, as if we had not enough
of them, we have brought in a host more of such ones
from the Latin, as in act, tract, inept, rapt.
Now, forbend is a softer-sounded word than deflect,
since ct (kt) are hard throat and root pennings, very unhandy
together, and the n of -nd is a mild half-penning,
and d is a mild dead penning. So dapper is better
sounded than adept, since p is a single hard penning
between two free breathings, and pt are a hard lip and a
hard roof breathing, unfollowed by any softer breathing.
It was against such harshness of hard unlike breath-[89]pennings
that Celtic speech took its markworthy word-moulding.
As a token of the readiness of two kindred breath-pennings
to run into one, we may give the words of the
Liturgy, ‘Make clean our hearts within us,’ for which a
clergyman will hardly, without a pause and a strong
pushing of the breath, help saying ‘Make lean our hearts
within us.’
There came out in print some time ago a statement
wonderful to me, that it had been found that the
poor landfolk of one of our shires had only about two
hundred words in their vocabulary, with a hint that
Dorset rustics were not likely to be more fully worded.
There can be shown to any writer two hundred thing-names,
known to every man and woman of our own
village, for things of the body and dress of a labourer,
without any mark-words, or time-words, or others, and
without leaving the man for his house, or garden, or the
field, or his work.
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CLUE TO MATTERS HANDLED.
Absolute case,
32,
47
Accent,
3
Adjective,
10,
12
Adverbs,
26,
48
Aorist (time),
28
Article,
6,
10
Attraction,
52
Be-,
52
Big things,
6
Breathings,
1,
44
— free,
1
— hard,
2,
44
Breath-pennings,
1,
2
Can,
27
Case,
30
— absolute,
32
— words,
31
Colon,
73
Comma,
73
Conjugation,
26
Conjunction,
35
Defective (time-words),
55
-dom,
57,
58
-ed,
19,
83
-el,
-l,
18
-en,
16,
45,
59,
84
-ening,
59
-er,
59,
84
-et,
84
Expansion,
60
For-,
60
Fore-,
61
Goodness of a speech,
86
Hinge and hank time-takings,
35
-hood,
62
Imperative mood,
31,
63
Impersonal time-words,
63
Inceptive time-words,
64
Indicative mood,
30
Infinitive mood,
16,
64
-ing,
17,
84
-ism,
65
Iterative time-words,
29,
66
Kindred,
5
[92]Link words,
35
-m,
-om,
-um,
66,
67,
84
Mark-words (thing),
4
Mark time-words,
45
May,
27
Mis-,
16
Miswording,
10
Mood,
30
Must,
27
Nominative case,
31
-ock,
16,
83
-om,
-um,
-m,
66,
67,
84
-op,
-p,
70,
83
Optative mood,
31,
70
Paraphrase,
71
Participles (Latin),
40
Period,
72
Person,
11,
26,
27
Personal time-word,
73
Pitches,
73
Potential,
31
Preposition (case-word),
31
Proposition,
35
Qualities,
12
-r,
-er,
16,
59
Seem,
41,
78
Sex,
5
-sh,
77
Shall,
77
-ship,
77
Small things,
5
-some,
78
Sound-softness,
38,
88
Speech, goodness of,
86
— strain,
3
— trimming,
36,
80
— wording,
35,
40-44
Stops,
72
Suchness,
12
— pitches of,
13
Syntax,
35,
80
Tale,
6,
10,
28
Thing mark-words,
4
— names,
4
— sundrinesses,
4
Thought-wording,
35
Time,
28
Time-giving,
15
Time-taking,
14,
25
— historic,
18,
30
— long,
27
— short, single, and stringly,
29
— transitive,
15
Time-words,
19
— strong,
20
— weak,
19,
20,
26
Twin,
39
Under sundrinesses of time-takings,
25
Word-endings, powers of,
83
Wordiness,
44
Word-sameness,
38
Word-strain,
3
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Transcriber's Note
The Heads of Matter does not correspond directly to the headings in
the text.
The following apparent errors have been corrected:
- p. vii "Transitive" changed to "Transitive 15"
- p. 4 "and Smallness" changed to "and Smallness."
- p. 5 "bottle (of hay)" changed to "bottle (of hay)."
- p. 5 "wants name-shapes" changed to "wants name-shapes."
- p. 6 "in Tale" changed to "in Tale."
- p. 6 "ien" changed to "ien."
- p. 12 "cries)" changed to "cries"
- p. 25 "consist" changed to "Consist"
- p. 84 "Half-Pennings" changed to "Half-Pennings."
- Catalogue p. 1 "Dutch Republic." changed to "Dutch Republic.”"
- Catalogue p. 29 "Ice and and Glaciers." changed to "Ice and Glaciers."
Many punctuation errors in the catalogue have been left unchanged. In addition,
the following possible errors have been left as printed:
- p. 61 omen (p. 61).
- p. 61 A word-list or word-list
- p. 75 Pronoun Adjective, mark-word.
- Catalogue p. 15 "Crown 8vo. Cloth, price" was printed with no price.
The following are used inconsistently in the text:
- Ben-nebat and Ben-Nebat
- folkspeech and folk-speech
- linkword and link-word
- markword and mark-word
- speechcraft and speech-craft
- Speechlore and Speech-lore