-ward, keeper: hayward, steward (= sty-keeper), woodward.

-y, -ie, diminutive: baby, lassie, Tommy, Willie.

Adjectives.—Some of the more important are:—

-ed, -d, the past participle ending, possession: honored, landed (possessing lands), talented.

-en, participial ending, also denotes material: drunken, given, hewn (= hewen), molten, river; flaxen, golden, silken, silvern, oaken, wooden; heathen (= belonging to the country).

-erly, -ern, direction, section: southerly, eastern.

-fast, firm: rootfast, shamefaced (= shamefast), steadfast.

-fold, times: fourfold, manifold.

-ful, full: artful, hopeful, needful, sinful.