-y (2)

adjective suffix, "full of or characterized by," from Old English -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-iga- (source also of Dutch, Danish, German -ig, Gothic -egs), from PIE -(i)ko-, adjectival suffix, cognate with elements in Greek -ikos, Latin -icus (see -ic).

Originally added to nouns in Old English; it was used from 13c. with verbs, and by 15c. with other adjectives (for example crispy).

Variant forms in -y for short, common adjectives (vasty, hugy) helped poets keep step with classical feet when the grammatically empty but metrically useful -e dropped off such words in late Middle English. To replace it, verse-writers had adopted to -y forms by Elizabethan times, and often it was done artfully, as in Sackville's "The wide waste places, and the hugy plain." Simple huge plain would have been a metrical balk.

After Coleridge's criticism of the -y forms as archaic artifice, poets gave up stilly (Moore probably was last to get away with it, with "Oft in the Stilly Night"), paly (which Keats and Coleridge himself had used) and the rest. Jespersen ("Modern English Grammar," 1954) also lists bleaky (Dryden), bluey, greeny, and other color words, lanky, plumpy, stouty, and the slang rummy. Vasty survived, he said, only in imitation of Shakespeare; cooly and moisty (Chaucer, hence Spenser) he regarded as fully obsolete. But in a few cases he notes (haughty, dusky) they seem to have supplanted the shorter forms.

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houding

Il me semble que la thématique du "freinage" [4] du de la pensée par la "tension du concept," telle qu'elle s'exprime dans la proposition spéculative et en ce qui la distingue de la proposition d'entendement, contient la clé de la doctrine du savoir absolu, et par conséquent de l'esprit absolu. Le séjour dans le négatif... [est] en vérité l'épreuve douloureuse grâce à laquelle le concept, sujet véritable, mais en devenir ou en procès, se convainc de son effectivité, se réconcilie avec soi-même dans la séparation jamais abolie d'avec soi. (Kervégan, L'effectif et le rationnel, last page)

[Fn 4]: J.P. Lefebvre traduit "blocage"

Pinkard: "impediment," "inhibition" in preface; "holding in check" in Self-Consciousness; "putting obstacles in the way" in The Beautiful Soul