nsinuates some errour, and for the most part may be rendered by the Latin
words male or perperam. To like, to dislike; honour, dishonour; to honour,
to grace, to dishonour, to disgrace; to deign, to disdeign; chance, hap,
mischance, mishap; to take, to mistake; deed, misdeed; to use, to misuse;
to employ, to misemploy, to apply, to misapply.

Words derived from Latin written with de or dis retain the same
signification; as distinguish, distinguo; detract, detraho; defame, defamo;
detain, detineo.

The termination ly added to substantives, and sometimes to adjectives,
forms adjectives that import some kind of similitude or agreement, being
formed by contraction of lick or like. A giant, giantly, giantlike; earth,
earthly; heaven, heavenly; world, worldly; God, godly; good, goodly.

The same termination ly, added to adjectives, forms adverbs of like
signification; as, beautiful, beautifully; sweet, sweetly; that is, in a
beautiful manner; with some degree of sweetness.

The termination ish added to adjectives, imports diminution; and added to
substantives, imports similitude or tendency to a character; as green,
greenish; white, whitish; soft, softish; a thief, thievish; a wolf,
wolfish; a child, childish.

We have forms of diminutives in substantives, though not frequent; as a
hill, a hillock; a cock, a cockrel; a pike, a pickrel; this is a French
termination: a goose, a gosling; this is a German termination: a lamb, a
lambkin; a chick, a chicken; a man, a manikin; a pipe, a pipkin; and thus
Halkin, whence the patronymick, Hawkins; Wilkin, Thomkin, and others.

Yet still there is another form of diminution among the English, by
lessening the sound itself, especially of vowels, as there is a form of
augmenting them by enlarging or even lengthening it; and that sometimes
not so much by change of the letters, as of their pronunciation; as,
sup, sip, soop, sop, sippet, where, besides the extenuation of the
vowel, there is added the French termination et; top, tip; spit, spout;
babe, baby; booby, [Greek: Boupais]; great pronounced long, especially
if with a stronger sound, grea-t; little, pronounced long lee-tle;
ting, tang, tong, imports a succession of smaller and then greater
sounds; and so in jingle, jangle, tingle, tangle, and many other made
words.

Much however of this is arbitrary and fanciful, depending wholly on
oral utterance, and therefore scarcely worthy t