THINGS AND THING-NAMES.
Things are of many kinds, as a man, a bird, a fish; an oyster, a sponge, a pebble; water, air, earth; honey, gold, salt.
The names of things may be called Thing-names.
But there are one-head thing-names (proper names), the names each of some one thing of its kind; as John, the miller; Toby, the dog; Moti, the lady’s Persian cat.
With Christian names may be ranked the so-called patronymics, or sire-names, taken from a father’s name, as William Johnson, Thomas Richardson; or in Welsh, Enid Verch Edeyrn; or in Hebrew Jeroboam Ben-nebat.
Thing Sundriness and Thing Mark-words.
☛ Mark is here to be taken in its old Saxon meaning, mearc—what bounds, defines, describes, distinguishes.
The Welsh call the adjective the weak name or noun, enw gwan.
Sundriness of Sex, Kindred, Youngness, and Smallness.
Marked by sundry names or mark-words, or mark endings.