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6. Cochrane. This personal name can have signified Elec- 
tus. Rhabanus Maurus (ninth century) writes kachoran, 
which in modern German would be gekoren. See the word 
Aghast, where the participle erkoren is mentioned. 
7. Dairy, from métairie. See Curmudgeon and Distaff: 
8. Harbinger. Warbiirge, a guarantee, personal security 
for fulfilment, accomplishment, &c., was composed of war, 
alluding to existence and truth (war and wahr sound alike), 
—as in gewahr werden (become aware), gewahren, grant, ac- 
complish, &c.,—and Birge. This latter being exchanged for 
mann, and war gradually for war, wahr, gewahr, &c., the 
compound now is Gewihrsmann, voucher, &c.; so that neither 
it nor harbinger can now be used in the original sense of an 
officer appointed by law or mutual agreement. Another ob- 
solete compound with both terminations is salbiirge and sal- 
mann (Du Cange has saleburgio), the first syllable of which 
is our sale, sell, and sel in handsel, which word occurs in old 
German, as handsal or handsaal, and is explained by promissio 
stipulata manu facta, sal having a more general meaning, such 
as giving up, delivery. 
9-11. Lad, Lass, Lewd (Leud). These words, of which the 
first two are not noble enough to satisfy children of high rank, 
and the last even synonymous with vulgar, were originally 
(together with other terms) used among the ancient Germans 
to designate the people, or third class, lidi, leti, lassi, leudi, 
&e.3 whence still the Russian /iudi, and the German Leute, both 
without a singular, which occurs, however, in Lex Burgun- 
diorum, xviii.: ** Quicunque Burgundio optimatis vel medio- 
cris cum alicujus filia se copulaverit,” &c., “Leudis vero si hoc 
presumpserit facere,” &c. The plural of this was leudes. It 
may join the Greek laos, or the word dadt (loud), the less re- 
spectable being generally more noisy and turbulent. From the 
same class, called also ruoda (7vot, uprooting, weeding, ren- 
dering land arable), the French have their roturier. 
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