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fix, is the guttural form dharg, having practically the 

 same sense. The notion of hold appears in German 

 tragan and English drag. Old Saxon and Anglo- 

 Saxon dragan, carry, standing between the two. We 

 get from this guttural form words with senses almost 

 identical with the tnU terms. Thus Old Slavonic 

 drugu is socius, amicus ; Russian drugu and druginja, 

 amicus and arnica; Czech druh, druha, male and female 

 comrades, druzny, companionable ; Lettish drdugs, 

 comrade, drdudse, commune, drdudsiba, community ; 

 Lithuanian draiigas, draugalka, male and female com- 

 panions, and drauge, community. Then we have Old 

 Saxon druht, 0. Friesian dracht, Anglo-Saxon drylit, 

 Old Norse drdtt, O.H.G-. truht for a troop, a crowd, a 

 folk, or even an army ; Gothic gadrauhts is a soldier. 

 Close following on truht, we have the leader of the truht, 

 the truhtin, truliten of O.H.G. and M.H.G., the lord, 

 chief; A.S. dryhten, leader, prince, but often god ; O.N. 

 drottinn, leader, chief, and even priest. O.N. drdttning, 

 Swedish drottning, Danish dronning, lady of high estate, 

 queen. In most Teutonic dialects truhten is specially 

 used of God or Christ. A more especially folk-term is 

 O.H.G. truhsdze, M.H.G. truhtsaeze, Old Friesian drusta, 

 Swedish drottsat, drots, Danish drost, the foresitter of 

 the truht group, and later an important court-official, 

 the representative of the king, truchsess, also the 

 chief of the royal larder. So far we see in this root 

 much the notion of the katriuuete, thefoederati, or group 

 held together by some special bond of comradeship ; but 

 a few words suffice to show that this bond was originally 

 sexual. Thus Polish druzba is ' Brautfuhrer,' Old 



