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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION
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IV, 314, . . . Hide your tears
Ye little weepers, and your laughing lips
Ye laughers for a little . . .
V, 43, Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness . . .
Of compounds we may note:
II, S3, And like the thunder-bearer’s was his hand . . .
187, . . . songdiird or storm-bearer, eagle or dove . . .
III, 120, O stout north-easter,
Sea-king, land-waster . . .
Cf. Ill, 119, O north-sea ranger . . .]
IV, S9, Be called for all time truth-teller . . .
Logically, the following formation also belongs here:
III, 119, O strong sea-sailor . . .
There may be some influence from foreign literatures
in these words. Thunder-bearer has a Homeric sound,
and land-waster, truth-teller, sea-sailor remind one of
Anglo-Saxon poetry.
-ess presents a formation that may be due to French
influence, as it is found in a series of translations from
Villon.
Ill, 133, The complaint of the fair armouress.
In these translations, too, we find the suffix -head
used in a rather individual way.
ill, 135, The bowed nose fallen from goodlihead . . .
153, Be not ye of our fellowhead
But pray to God that he forgive us all.
The former ot these N. E. D. gives as obsolete; the
latter is not to be found in either N. E. D. or C. D. It
is possible that the difficulties of rhyming have caused its
creation.
-hood, the cognate suffix of -head, shows two
formations that are not new but are still rather unusual.
II, 178, 1 prophesy ... Of freedom though all manhood were
one slave . . .
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