011_College lectures; Page 8

"Take, again, such words as godly, homely, brotherly,
lovely" -- "Upon tracing it up with the older
form of our speech, the Anglo-Saxon, we find
that our modern usage has mutilated it
after the same fashion as the Scottish
dialect now mutilates the feel of fearful--
by dropping off, namely, an original final
consonant, its earlier form was lic. Th final
gutteral letter we find preserved even to
the present day in the corresponding suffixes
of the other Germanic languages, as in the
German lich, Swedish lic, Dutch lijk.
These facts lead us naturally to the
conjecture that the so-called suffix may
be nothing more than a mutamorphosis
of one common adjective like; and a reference
to the oldest Germanic dialect, the Moeso-
Gothic, puts the case beyond all question."
"Each passed over into its condition of a