An Outline of English Speech-craft. Barnes William

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.