Some of the female figurines depicted women with uplifted arms while others portrayed pregnant females with uplifted arms in the process of giving birth.

I'm like a stepping razor / Don't you watch my size / I'm dangerous, dangerous

make a blind all along the bottom of the ditch of the Envelope

All diminutives eaſily acquire a careſſive character, as animula, ocellus, &c. the Greeks even called their diminutives ὐποκρισικα; and the ſofter form, lin, rather than kin, would moſt naturally be ſo appropriated.