curious-looking name _Winfarthing_ (quoted from Lower) as perhaps a corruption of an A.S. Winfrithing, though it is a case in which I do not feel much certainty, finding one or two other such names as _Turnpenny_, which may have been sobriquets. The ending in _el_ or _il_. This ending in Teutonic names may be taken, as a general rule, to be a diminutive, though in a few cases it may be more probably, like that in _en_, formative. Thus in the list of early A.S. settlers we have Bryd(ingas) and we have Brydl(ingas), representing the words _bride_ and _bridle_. Now, as German writers have taken the word _brid_ in ancient names to mean "bridle," comparing it with French _bride_, it would seem probable that, in the above A.S. name, Brydl is not a diminutive, but the extended word "bridle." However, as a general rule, it may be presumed to be a diminutive, and in such sense I take the following, premising that this, as well as all other diminutives, except _kin_, _lin_, and _et_, is subject to a vowel-ending just the same as simple forms. We have _Bable_, corresponding with an A.S. Babel, and an O.G. Babilo; _Ansell_ and _Anslow_ (Ansilo), corresponding with an O.G. Ansila; _Mundell_ and _Mundella_, with a Gothic Mundila;[9] _Costall_, _Costello_, and _Costly_, with an O.G. Costila. _Costly_ is properly Costili, with the ending in _i_, as also _Brightly_ is Brightili, and some other names with an adverbial look may be similarly explained. The ending in _ec_ or _ic_. This ending, with rare exceptions, may also be taken to be a diminutive. The oldest instance on record is stated by Stark as that of the Vandal general Stilicho in the fourth century, though, as found on Roman pottery (in the names Bassico and Bennicus), it may be still older. It seems rather singular that, though, according to Grimm, this ending was more particularly in favour among the Saxons, not a single instance of it occurs among the names of our early settlers, nor indeed any other form of diminutive except that in _el_, though the form in question is not uncommon in after Anglo-Saxon times. This diminutive is still in living use among us, at least in Scotland, where a "mile and a bittock" (little bit) has proved a snare to many a tourist. We have _Willock_, _Wilkie_, and _Wilke_, corresponding with an O.G. Willico, and an A.S. Uillech; _Lovick_ and _Lubbock_, corresponding with O.G. Liuvicho; _Jellicoe_, corresponding with O.G. Geliko, Jeliko, and an A.S. Geleca, some of these examples being with, and some without, the vowel-ending. The ending in _lin_.