take, touch, tickle, tack, tackle; all imply a local conjunction from
the Latin tango, tetigi, tactum.

From two are formed twain, twice, twenty, twelve, twins, twine, twist,
twirl, twig, twitch, twinge, between, betwixt, twilight, twibil.

The following remarks, extracted from Wallis, are ingenious but of more
subtlety than solidity, and such as perhaps might in every language be
enlarged without end.

Sn usually imply the nose, and what relates to it. From the Latin nasus
are derived the French nez and the English nose; and nesse, a
promontory, as projecting like a nose. But as if from the consonants ns
taken from nasus, and transposed that they may the better correspond,
sn denote nasus; and thence are derived many words that relate to the
nose, as snout, sneeze, snore, snort,snear, snicker, snot, snivel,
snite, snuff, snuffle, snaffle, snarl, snudge.

There is another sn which may perhaps be derived from the Latin sinuo,
as snake, sneak, snail, snare; so likewise snap and snatch, snib, snub.
Bl imply a blast; as blow, blast, to blast, to blight, and,
metaphorically, to blast one's reputation; bleat, bleak, a bleak place,
to look bleak, or weather-beaten, black, blay, bleach, bluster, blurt,
blister, blab, bladder, blew, blabber lip't, blubber-cheek't, bloted,
blote-herrings, blast, blaze, to blow, that is, blossom, bloom; and
perhaps blood and blush.

In the native words of our tongue is to be found a great agreement
between the letters and the thing signified; and therefore the sounds
of the letters smaller, sharper, louder, closer, softer, stronger,
clearer, more obscure, and more stridulous, do very often intimate the
like effects in the things signified.

Thus words that begin with str intimate the force and effect of the
thing signified, as if probably derived from [Greek: stronnymi], or
strenuous; as strong, strength, strew, strike, streak, stroke, stripe,
strive, strife, struggle, strout, strut, stretch, strait, strict,
streight, that is, narrow, distrain, stress, distress, string, strap,
stream, streamer, strand, strip, stray, struggle, strange, stride,
stradale.

St in like manner imply strength, but in a less degree, so much only as
is sufficient to preserve what has been already communicated, rather
than acquire any new degree; as if it were derived from th