154 KINDRED GROUP-MARRIAGE. 



vorgaden is vergatten to pair, and it later takes the 

 meaning of vermcihlen, marry. That this, however, is 

 not its original meaning is well marked by the L.G. sick 

 in echtschop vorgaddern i.e. to pair in a legal manner. 

 The same primitive notion is also borne out by the 

 use of begatten in German solely for animals, although 

 gatte and gattin are used of husband and wife. We 

 find gatalinga glossed exactly as gamahhida. O.H.G. 

 gattdina, A. S. gaedeling, are rendered by comes, sodalis, 

 consors, consanguineus, while Gothic gadiliggs is con- 

 sobrinus, the sister's son. O.S. gigado, O.H.G. gegate 

 and gate is given by socius, aequalis, sponsus, comrade 

 but also spouse. Katilinga is also glossed parentes. 

 A.S. gaed denotes society, fellowship, company, and 

 stands to gat as maege to magen. Now all these terms 

 seem purely idle from the patriarchal standpoint, for 

 the spouse is not the equal or the blood relative. But 

 the kindred group -marriage throws light upon them all. 

 The group of parents are themselves katilinga, they are 

 comrades, equals, kin ; they form one society, wherein 

 the mother's sister's child is on the same footing as the 

 mother's child. 1 All the katilinga are comrades at bed 

 and board. But we have by no means completed the 

 analogies between the katilinga and gamahhida. As I 

 have already pointed out, the kin is the sphere of what 

 is kind, friendly, pleasurable, all beyond is hostile. 

 Accordingly we have gag at, convenient ; getelich, what 

 is fitting, proper ; gedelik, what is useful ; while gattlich 

 gets the sense of beautiful, and getelos of all that is 

 unfitting and improper. 



1 Compare vvyyeveia, kinship ; ffvyyevfy, kinsman, cousin, the fitting ; 

 <rvyyvi.K6s, the fitting to kin ; ovyyfyropuu, to be with at bed and board ; 

 <rvyyei>7}<ris = vergaderung. 



