LESS--_loss_: as penniless, hopeless.
LIKE and LY--_like_; _lic_ (A.-S.): as warlike, manly.
SOME--_sum_ (A.-S.), _sam_ (German), lonesome, handsome.
TEEN--ten, as in fourteen.
TY--from _tig_ (A.-S ), ten; _zig_ (German), as in six-_ty_. _Teen_ adds
ten--_ty_ multiplies by ten.
WARD--_weard_, _waerts_ (German), _versus_ (Latin), against, direction,
towards; downward, eastward.
WISE--_wisa_, manner; likewise.
Y--_ig_, an adjective termination; _dreorig_ (A.-S.), dreary.
ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES.
The pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon is much nearer to that of modern German or
the Continental pronunciation of Latin than of modern English.
The letters of the alphabet wanting in Anglo-Saxon are: _j_, _k_, _q_, _v_,
and _z_. _K_ is commonly represented by _c_; thus, _cyning_ (king) is
pronounced _kining_; _cyrtel_, _kirtle_; _qu_ is represented by _cw_, as
_cwic_, _quick_; _cwen_, _queen_; _cwellan_, to _quell_; _th_ is
represented by two peculiar characters, one of which in its reduced form
resembles _y_, as in _ye olden times_, where _ye_ should be pronounced
_the_, and not _ye_, as is often ignorantly done.
Long vowels should be carefully distinguished from short vowels. Long
vowels are _a_ as _far_, _ae_ as in _fare_, _e_ as in _they_, _i_ as in
_pique_, _o_ as in _bone_, _u_ as in _rule_, _y_ as in _i_ (nearly). Short
vowels are _a_ as in _fast_, _ae_ as in _man_, _e_ as in _men_, _i_ as in
_pin_, _o_ as in _God_, _u_ as in _full_, _y_ as in _i_ (nearly).
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