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the Saxon and French terms," but from a fancied 

 French or Latin derivation, just as rime is spelt 

 rhyme, because it was fancied that it came from 

 ^vd/ihs ; and as critics and editors will print ccelum 

 instead of ccelum, contrary to all authority, be- 

 cause they have taken it into their heads that it 

 comes from koIKov. We have also spright, im- 

 pregnable, and other misspelt words, for which it is 

 difficult to assign a reason. But I think H, C. K. 

 is altogether mistaken in connecting the A.-S. ig 

 (pr. ee), an island, with eye. It is evidently one o£ 

 the original underived nouns of the Teutonic fa- 

 mily, being ig A.-S., ey Icel., whence o Swed., o or 

 oe Dan., and which also appears in the German and 

 Dutch eiland; while in the words for eye the g is 

 radical, as cage A.-S., augu Icel., auge Germ., 

 oog Dutch. T. K. 



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