Such indistinct utterances belong to natural
language; but they fall below the bounds of regulated speech. Hence,
_real_ interjections are not a part of written language.
The meaning of those words commonly called interjections, is easily
shown by tracing them to their roots.
_Pish_ and _pshaw_ are the Anglo-Saxon _paec, paeca_; and are
equivalent to _trumpery_! i.e. _tromperie_, from _tromper_.
_Fy_ or _fie_ is the imperative, _foe_, the past tense, and _foh_ or
_faugh_, the past part. of the Saxon verb _fian_, to hate.
_Lo_ is the imperative of _look. Halt_ is the imperative of
_healden_, to hold. _Farewell--fare-well_, is a compound of _faran_,
to go, and the adverb _well_. It means, to _go well.
Welcome--well-come_, signifies, it is _well_ that you are _come.
Adieu_ comes from the French _a Dieu_, to God; meaning, I commend
you _to God_.
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LECTURE XI.
OF THE MOODS AND TENSES OF VERBS.
You have now acquired a general, and, I may say, an extensive, knowledge
of nine parts of speech; but you know but little, as yet, respecting the
most important one of all; I mean the VERB.
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