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contemptuous iu a higli degree. So, also, instead of oddivai vnnini, 

 a trader, or man wlio sells, the word may be changed to oddivai 

 loinimwish, implying a bad or dishonest trader. It is seldom that 

 a more pointed or positive mode of expressing personal disap- 

 probation or dislike is required; for, generally speaking, more is 

 implied by these modes than is actually expressed. 



The following examples are drawn from the inorganic as well 

 as organic creation, embracing the two classes of nouns, that the 

 operation of these forms may be fully perceived. 



These forms cannot be said, strictly, to be without analogy in 

 the English, in which the limited number of words terminating 

 in ish, as saltish, blackish, furnish a correspondence in sound with 

 the first adjective form. 



It may subserve the purposes of generalization to add, as the 

 result of the foregoing inquiries, that substantives have a diminu- 



