The word _bot_ or _bote_ is still retained in the law language, as _fire-bote_, _house-bote_; where it is equivalent to _enough_ or _sufficiency_. [92] So in Mandeville's works. "And right as the schip men taken here avys here, and govern hem _be_ the lode sterre, right so don schip men bezonde the parties, _be_ the sterre of the Southe, the which apperethe not to us." [93] The French _oui_ is said to be a derivative or participle of the verb _ouir_ to hear. The mode of assent therefore is by the word _heard_; as what you say is _heard_; a mode equally expressive with the English. [94] It is most probable that many of the English words beginning with _wh_ are from the same original as the Latin qui, quæ, quod; and both coeval with the Greek. Qui and who; quod and what; are from the same root, and a blending of the Greek ~kai ho~ and ~kai hoti~. This supposition is strongly supported by the ancient Scotch orthography of _what_, _where_, &c. which was _quhat_, _quhar_. [95] The termination _ly_, from _liche_, added to _adjectives_, forms the part of speech called _adverbs_; as _great_, _greatly_; _gracious_, _graciously_. But when this termination is added to a noun, it forms an adjective, as God, _Godly_; heaven, _heavenly_; and these words are also used adverbially; for they will not admit the addition of another _ly_. _Godlily_, which has been sometimes used, that is, _Godlikelike_, and other similar words, are not admissible, on any principle whatever. [96] _Do_ and _to_ are undoubtedly from the same root; _d_ and _t_ being convertible letters. [97] This word is not used in modern French; but its derivatives, _avitailler_, _avitaillment_, &c. are still retained. [98] Correspondence, letter 53. [99] Some of these articles, in other languages, have names in the singular number, as in Latin, _forceps_, pincers; _forfex_, sheers or scissors; _follis_, bellows. In French, _souflet_ is singular, and _pincettes_, plural. A _bellows_ is sometimes heard in English, and is perfectly correct. [100] Will the same authority justify our farmers in prefixing _pair_ to a sett of _bars_, and other people, in prefixing it to _stairs_, when there are five or six of the former, and perhaps twenty of the latter? A _pair of bars_, a _pair of stairs_, in strictness of speech, are very absurd phrases; but perhaps it is better to admit such anomalies, than attempt to change universal and immemorial practice. [101] "The _King of England's court_, toto nempe illi aggregato. The _King of England_, tamquam uni substantivo potponitur litera formativa _s_."----Wallis. [102] Second part of the Grammatical Institute. Tit. Notes. [103] Chaucer's Works, Glossary, p. 151.