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does wini denote ? Wini is a root much like gimah, 

 with which I shall deal later. It is glossed amicus, 

 sodalis, dilectus, while winid is rendered by dilecta, 

 marita, conjux; winiscaf is foedus, amor (Sanskrit 

 vdma is dear, precious, health, and wealth). Thus we 

 have the notion of the friend, the table -comrade, the 

 spouse, in short, the male or female member of the 

 cosexual group. The original kinship of the members is 

 shown in Old Irish fine, blood relative. What is wini 

 is friendly, winsome, and what is unwini is unfriendly ; 

 just as what is of the kin is kind, and what is not of it 

 is unkind, or what is of the hag is haglig, fitting, and 

 behaglich, comfortable and pleasant. 1 It is the kin and 

 kin-home as the standard of comfort and right, much as 

 the child's standard to-day is that of home comfort and 

 family habit. 2 To make the wini series complete, we 

 may note Fick's supposed cognates : Greek evvrf, a lair, 

 a couch, a bridal bed; O.H.G-. gawona, dwell, and Ger- 

 man wohnung, a house ; Sk. vdnas, lust ; O.N. viiina, 

 German gewinnen, English win, O.H.G. wan, wonne, etc. 

 Nor is it only in the ideas of kindness and comfort 

 that we find the primitively sexual link developing 

 into new social qualities. No root, for example, is 

 originally of more purely sexual weight than Aryan 

 gan, Latin gen. But besides a whole terminology for 

 begetting, child-bearing, parentage, and kinship, we find 



1 There is a similar idea in the short hi form of the root, thus O.N. hyrr, 

 soft, gentle; A.S. Jiedre, O.H.G. hiuri, in the compounds unhiuri, M.H.G. gehiure, 

 and German geheuer and ungeheuer, for the reverse of comfort. Slavonic 

 po-sivu is benign ; Sanskrit si is peace, rest, comfort ; Icelandic hyra, joyous- 

 looking ; while Landsmaal hyra and uhyra stand for good and bad fortune. 



2 Compare the Greek olKos, house, home, family ; 01*616x77?, intimacy, 

 marriage ; oketos, fitting, suitable ; and oi/cetw^ua, appropriateness, etc. 



