546 Rev. Mr Witurams on one Source of the 
from this root. To deny this would be equivalent to a denial that 
the Latin verb, calcare, came from calx the heel. In the following 
list such words alone, with a few exceptions, for the sake of ety- 
mological illustration, have been introduced. It might have been 
indefinitely extended, but the difficulty was to confine the ex- 
amples within moderate limits. 
Am, around; Am-Terminum,! quoted by Macrostus from Caro’s Origines. It is 
needless to quote the various opinions of the learned upon the subject. In 
Owen’s Dictionary under the word we find: “* Am, prep. round, about. In 
composition it answers to circum, as ‘ amgylchii, to circumscribe.” “ Am y 
tan, round the fire.” Hence 
Amo, I go round—I embrace—I love. Amplector, I clasp in my embrace, has the 
same meaning. Crcrro, Fam. Ep. Lib. vi. Ep. 6. ‘“ Me amicissime quotidie 
magis Cxsar amplectitur ;” 2. e. adds Forcrriint, Amat. So, Satz, Bell. Jug. 
cap. 7: “ Aliquem in amicis habere magis magisque indies amplecti.” Thus, 
«© Amplexor, (Cicer. ad Quint. Frat. Lib. ii. Ep. 12.) Appius me totum amplex- 
atur,” h. e. Valde Amat. The Greek Ayan, has the same meaning. 
2 Am-rrvo, to turn round ; compounded of Am, and Troi, to turn. “ Amdroi (vid. 
Ow. Dict.), to revolve, to circulate.” 
Axia, contracted; Ala, a wing; eg, membrum illud quo aves volant ; me- 
taphorically, an armpit. Now Asgel (by a common change Ag-sel), plur. Esgyl, 
is a wing (vid. Ow. Dict.), of which the Cornish form was Esel, plur. Esili. 
But Asg, the root, signifies separation, a splinter ; the same idea which guided 
man in naming limbs, jg, Brachia, &c. 
Asruta—As-del (yulgo Astel, plur. Estyl), a plank ; compounded of As, a plain 
or flat, and Del, separation ; verb Delti, to split. The English word Deal is cog- 
nate in origin and meaning. Without any collusion or suspicion of any such oc- 
currence, Barker’s Forcexiint, has under Astula, “ a board, lath, shingle ;” 
and Ow. Dict. under Asdel, “ a board, plank, shingle.” 
1 “ Quidam putant, antiquitus fuisse separabilem afferuntque illud fragmentum.”—Caron. in ori- 
ginibus apud Macrosium, Lib. i. satur. cap. 14. Am-Terminum, Circa-Terminum, super quo tamen 
miras eruditi lites excitarunt.—ForcEtt. in loco. Hence we have a preposition in common use 
among the Cumri, which nevertheless had ceased to be so used in Rome long before the Romans in- 
vaded Britain. 
2 An ancient word, which, like most other expressions which they did not understand, has been 
especially maltreated by commentators. I add ForcE.uin1’s account of it: “ Am truo vel Amptruo, 
to turn round in the dance. Antiquum verbum ab Am, circum, et trua, qu est instrumentum ad 
movendum vel agitandum. Significat motus et saltus quos edebant Salii sacerdotes in suis sacris. Ho- 
rum enim qui primus erat, amtruare dicebatur, et qui post eum moyebantur et saltitabant, invicem 
motus reddentes, redamtruare.” Cels. apud Festum, Redamptruare. Something analogical to the 
Strophe and Antistrophe of the Greek Chorus. 
