[MR] Any Linguists In The Tavern?

[Towey, Brian]

Friends and neighbors,

I remember a linguistics class from long ago where the prof mentioned a
bunch of patterns in Old English that carry through into modern English.

There was the -som suffix, which makes a property into an adjective:
	lissome
	buxom
	toothsome
	handsome

There was the -ester suffix, which indicates that a word has an opposite:
	eastern western
	northern southern
	best worst
	brother sister
	mother father