_Etymology of "Monk" and "Till," &c._ (Vol. viii., pp. 291. 409.).--Will
you allow me one word on these two cases? _Monk_ is manifestly a Greek
formative from [Greek: monos], and denotes a _solitaire_.
The proposed derivation of _till_, from _to-while_, is not new; but still
clearly mistaken, inasmuch as the word _till_ is found in Scotch, Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, and others of the family. A word thus compounded would
be of less general use. Besides which, _to-while_ would scarcely produce
such a form as _till_; it would rather change the _t_ into an aspirate,
which would appear as _th_.