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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION
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A new collective word is formed by this suffix in
V, 382, . . . crabs claws . . . keen as a boar’s toothing.
-let. The diminutive suffixes do not show many
peculiar forms, -let gives the following two:
VI, 50, No touch may loosen the black braced helmlets
For the wild elves’ heads of the wild waves wrought.
As flowers on the sea are her small green realmlets,
Like heavens made out of a child’s heart’s thought.
N. E. D. quotes the former from Swinburne; the latter
is not found in C. D. — The obsolete altarlet occurs in
II, 333: the ftameless altarlets.
2. Prefixes.
Some obsolete words occur for which the modern
language has substituted fuller forms: vantage, for
advantage (IV, 187), broideries for embroideries (IV, 225), closure,
for enclosure (IV, 330). On the other hand, we sometimes
find a fuller form than is now usual, as in ensign, for
sign (V, 103). Else there are no peculiarities in the use
of prefixes.
b. 1. Composition: Substantives with substantives.
The classification adopted by Dyboski for the
compounds of Tennyson also covers the corresponding number
of formations of Swinburne. D. divides compound
substantives into four groups: the first group consists of cases
where a purely genitive relation exists between the two
parts of the compound, which genitive, however, can be
of different kinds. In the second group the relation is a
prepositional one. The third and fourth might be called
types of coordination: either the relation between the
substantives may be expressed by a simple and [type: soldier-
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