s. 320. _Much_, _more_.--Here, although the words be unlike each other, there is a true etymological relation. Moeso-Gothic, _mikils_; Old High German, _mihhil_; Old Saxon, _mikil_; Anglo-Saxon, _mycel_; Old Norse, _mickill_; Scotch, _muckle_ and _mickle_ (all ending in _l_): Danish, _megen_, m.; _meget_, n.; Swedish, _mycken_, m.; _myckett_, n. (where no _l_ is found). Such is the adjectival form of the positive, rarely found in the Modern Gothic languages, being replaced in German by _gross_, in English by _great_, in Danish by _stor_. The adverbial forms are _mioek_ and _mioeg_, Norse; _much_, English. It is remarkable that this last form is not found in Anglo-Saxon, being replaced by _s[^a]re_, Germ, _sehr_.--Grimm, D. G. iii. 608. The adverbial and the Norse forms indicate that the _l_ is no part of the original word. Comparison with other Indo-European languages gives us the same circumstance: Sanskrit, _maha_; Latin, _mag-nus_; Greek, [Greek: megas] (_megas_). There is in Moeso-Gothic the comparative form _m['a]iza_, and there is no objection to presuming a longer form, _magiza_; since in the Greek form [Greek: meizon], compared with [Greek: megas], there {269} is a similar disappearance of the _g_. In the Old High German we find _m[^e]ro_, corresponding with _m['a]iza_, Moeso-Gothic, and with _more_, English. _Mickle_ (replaced by _great_) expresses size; _much_, quantity; _many_, number. The words _more_ and _most_ apply equally to number and quantity. I am not prepared either to assert or to deny that _many_, in Anglo-Saxon _maenig_, is from the same root with _much_. Of the word _m[^a]_ notice has already been taken. Its later form, _moe_, occurs as late as Queen Elizabeth, with an adjectival as well as an adverbial sense. s. 321. _Little_, _less_.--Like _much_ and _more_, these words are in an etymological relation to each other. Moeso-Gothic, _leitils_; Old High German, _luzil_; Old Saxon, _luttil_; Anglo-Saxon, _lytel_; Middle High German, _luetzel_; Old Norse, _l[^i]till_. In these forms we have the letter _l_. Old High German Provincial, _luz['i]c_; Old Frisian, _litich_; Middle Dutch, _luttik_; Swedish, _liten_; Danish, _liden_.--Deutsche Grammatik, iii. 611. From these we find that the _l_ is either no part of the original word, or one that is easily got rid of. In Swedish and Danish there are the forms _lille_ and _liden_; whilst in the neuter form, _lidt_, the _d_ is unpronounced. Even the word _liden_ the Danes have a tendency to pronounce _leen_. My own notion is that these changes leave it possible for _less_ to be derived from the root of _little_. According to Grimm, the Anglo-Saxon _laessa_ is the Gothic _lasiv[^o]za_, the comparative of _lasivs_=_weak_.--Deutsche Grammatik, iii. 611. In Anglo-Saxon there was the adjectival form _laessa_, and the adverbial form _laes_. In either case we have the form _s_.