108 Transactions. 



Awe : aclios ; A.S., ege. 



Axe : axine ; L., ascia. Compare oxys (sharp). 



Axle: axon; L., axis. 



Aye, ever : a(v)ei, ai(v)on; L., Eevum. 



Bake : phogo, pepto. 



Bane : phonos (murder). 



Ban, banns : phaino, phanai ; L., fama. 



Be : phuo ; L., fui. 



Bear : phero ; L., fero. 



Beech : phegos ; L., fagus. 



Bid : peitho (root pitli). 



Bier : pheretron ; L., feretrum. 



Bleat : bleche, blecha-omai. 



Blink (original meaning, shine) : phlego. 



Bloom : phloos (bloom), phullon (leaf). 



Book (original meaning, beech), phegos. The first books were 



writings scratched on beechen boards. 

 Boom (hum) : bombos (humming) ; L., bombus. 

 Bottom: puthmen ; L., fundus. 

 Bough (original meaning, arm) : pechys (fore-arm). 

 Bourn, burn (stream) : phrear (well) ; A.S., burna (well, fountain). 

 Bow : pheugo ; L. , f ugo. 

 Break : rheg-numi (root, frag) ; L., frango. 

 Brother : phrater (a member of a brotherhood or clan). Its 



political meaning in Greek is peculiar. L., f rater. 

 Brow : o-phrys ; Sansc, bhru. 

 Burgh, bury : purgos, pergamos. 

 Burn, to : pyr. 

 By : amphi. phi was the old termination of the obliijue cases, so 



often seen in Homer. 

 Call : kaleo ; L., calo. 

 Chap, chop : kopto. 

 Chin : genys ; L., gena. 

 Choose : geuo ; L., gusto. 

 Clack : klazo. 

 Cleave: glypho. 

 Clew, clue : klotho; L., glomus. 

 Cock (so called from its cry) : compare kokku (the cry of the 



cuckoo), used as an exclamation by Aristophanes. 

 Come: baino = gTvaino ; L., venio = gwenio 



