186 Wisconsi7i Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



thus : " Sicut domus Dei Basilica, i. e., Rogia 9 Rege, sic etiam 

 Kyrica, i. e.. Dominica, a Domino nuncapatur.''* Bat this as- 

 sertion of the 9th centuary does not prove more than the same 

 assertion of the 19th century. In Fitzedward Hall's " Recent 

 Exemplifications, etc." I noticed that he tried to derive 

 'church' from ' ecclesia '; but I could not procure his article 

 to see how he has succeeded. Nor have I been able to consult 

 the dictionaries of Du Cange and Weigand. 



History tells us that Roman legions and colonists had come 

 in contact with Teutonic nations both north and south, long 

 before the Christian religion had made its way among them, at 

 the time when they established themselves in Gaul, along the 

 line of the Rhine and later in other parts of Germany, under 

 Drusus and others. Wherever it was convenient, they found- 

 ed military camps and colonies ; and it is well known that 

 the neighboring tribes were not alwavs in a hostile con- 

 tact, but came by way of trade, etc. into a peaceful inter- 

 course with the Roman soldiery. f Many Teutonic barbarians 

 entered the Roman service and whole tribes accepted Roman 

 protection. The Roman fleet visited the shores of Slesvig and 

 Jutland. The consequence was that Germanic words crept 

 into the lingua vulgaris (a few of which were adopted into the 

 lingua urbana), as Roman words into the language of the bar- 



*Es ist bekannt, wie wenig sich die alten Geschiclitschreiber sowohl 

 als die Urliuiidensteller in die Reclitsclireibung der Namen zu findeu 

 Tvussten, die sie bald nach der Aussprache des gemeinen Lebens auszu- 

 driicken, bald in mancherlei, ihrer Meiuung nach lateinischen (grieclii- 

 sclien) Formen einzuschmelzen suchten. Wenck, Hess. Landesgesch, I 

 670, Anm, a. 



•f-Les Remains avaient tonj ours etc un peuple d'esprit pratique. Le 

 pays barbare quil n'avaient pu dompter par les amies, ils s'appliquerent 

 a I'exploiter au profit de leur commerce. Geffroy, Rome et les Barbares. 

 (Paris 1874 p. 45. — Dus I'epoque ou la rive gauche etait devenue romaine, 

 les marchands et uegociants de Fempire avaient iJenetru dans ces nou- 

 veaux pays, et bientot traverse le fleuve. Id. p. 257 ; cf. also pp. 263 and 

 348 sqq. and Tacitus' Annal., in regard to the jus commercii, established 

 under Marbod. 



