-t, -et. Forlessens.
| Poke, | pocket. |
| Ball, | bullet. |
| Sock, | socket. |
Half-Pennings.
do not so strongly, if at all, betoken endingness, or shortness, or smallness.
-m. A stem is of any length, but stump is short.
-en, -n. Golden, eked wholly in gold; blacken, to eke on freely in blackness.
-ing, as in walking, does not betoken any ending or shortening of a time-taking.
-er, -r, betokens eking out much in shape or time, as:—
| Chat, | chatter. |
| Pat, | patter. |
| Clate, | clatter. |
It so happens that while we have a dead penning, -ed, for the ended time-taking, as, ‘he walked,’ we have a half-penning for the ongoing time-taking, as, ‘he walketh.’ It is true that -en, a half-penning, is put for -ed, as an ending of some mark-time words, as brok-en, and that -el, -l, a half-penning, may seem to mean either much or small, as prate, prattle (prat-el). Time-words with these endings in full length are weak.