But to the question.  There are many adjectives in our language which are borrowed from foreign words.  Instead of adjectiving our own nouns we go to our neighbors and adjective and anglicise [english-ise] their words, and adopt the pampered urchins into our own family and call them our favorites.  It is no wonder that they often appear aukward and unfamiliar, and that our children are slow in forming an intimate acquaintance with them.  You are here favored with a short list of these words which will serve as examples, and enable you to comprehend my meaning and apply it in future use.  Some of them are regularly used as adjectives, with or without change; others are not.

    ENGLISH NOUNS.  FOREIGN ADJECTIVES.

Alone            Sole, solitary
Alms             Eleemosynary
Age              Primeval
Belief           Credulous
Blame            Culpable
Breast           Pectoral
Being            Essential
Bosom            Graminal, sinuous
Boy, boyish      Puerile
Blood, bloody    Sanguinary, sanguine
Burden           Onerous
Beginning        Initial
Boundary         Conterminous
Brother          Fraternal
Bowels           Visceral
Body             Corporeal
Birth            Natal, native
Calf             Vituline
Carcass          Cadaverous
Cat              Feline
Cow              Vaccine
Country          Rural, rustic
Church           Ecclesiastical
Death            Mortal
Dog              Canine
Day              Diurnal, meridian, ephemeral
Disease          Morbid
East             Oriental
Egg              Oval
Ear              Auricular
Eye              Ocular
Flesh            Carnal, carnivorous
Father           Paternal
Field            Agrarian
Flock            Gregarious
Foe              Hostile
Fear             Timorous, timid
Finger           Digital
Flattery         Adulatory
Fire             Igneous
Faith            Fiducial
Foot             Pedal
Groin            Inguinal
Guardian         Tutelar
Glass            Vitreous
Grape            Uveous
Grief            Dolorous
Gain             Lucrative
Help             Auxiliary
Heart            Cordial, cardiac
Hire             Stipendiary
Hurt             Noxious
Hatred           Odious
Health           Salutary, salubrious
Head             Capital, chief
Ice              Glacial
Island           Insular
King             Regal, royal
Kitchen          Culinary
Life             Vital, vivid, vivarious
Lungs            Pulmonary
Lip              Labial
Leg              Crural, isosceles
Light            Lucid, luminous
Love             Amorous
Lust             Libidinous
Law              Legal, loyal
Mother           Maternal
Money            Pecuniary
Mixture          Promiscuous, miscellaneous
Moon             Lunar, sublunary
Mouth            Oral
Marrow           Medulary
Mind             Mental
Man              Virile, male, human, masculine
Milk             Lacteal
Meal             Ferinaceous
Nose             Nasal
Navel            Umbilical