‘We are the offscouring of all things unto this day.’—1 Cor. iv. 13. Not ‘We are the offscouring all things.’
‘For that righteous man, IN seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul.’
‘By the WASHING of regeneration and (the) RENEWING of the Holy Ghost.’—Titus iii. 5. Not ‘He saved us by the washing regeneration and renewing the Holy Ghost.’
The ending -er of the time-taker (deeder, name-word) is, not unclearly, the Celtic, Welsh gwr, or in word-welding -wr, the Latin -or; as,
Welsh, barn, doom; barnwr, a doom-man.
Latin, canto, to sing; cantor, a sing-man.
Thence -er seems a far less fitting ending for a tool-name than the old Saxon -el; and a tool for the whetting of knives would be more fitly called a whettel than a whetter. Choppel, chopper; clippels, clippers.
All new time-words now taken or shapen from other tongues must be unmoulded.
We say shoot, shot (not shooted); but loot, looted (not lot), loot being the Hindustani lootna, to rob or plunder.
So time-words, which are known English words, of another kind, names or mark-words, are mostly unmoulded.
The shapening of the time-words hangs rather more on their endings than on their headings.