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Friesian dracht is used in general of the bridal following ; 

 while A.S. dryhtguma is vassal, follower, warrior, 

 truhtigomo in O.H.GJ-. is paranymphus, bridesman ; 

 O.H.G. trulitinc is pronuba, paranymphus, sodalis, 

 sponsalis, and 0. Saxon druhting, drohting, a wedding- 

 guest, one who attends the bridal procession and feast. 

 Thus we are again led to the idea that our ' fast ' group 

 is not only a social group and a military group, but also 

 a bridal group ; the base of the truht is seen to be not 

 only a peace-pledge, a civic unity, but also a sexual bond. 

 It corresponds exactly to the words for marriage and 

 family arising from the root e, or ehe, a pact. The co- 

 sexual social unit may not be as clearly illustrated in the 

 dhar and dharg terms as in some others we have come 

 across, but we find unmistakable traces of it even here. 



(12) The last general words applicable to a co-sexual 

 community to which I shall refer are offshoots from the 

 Aryan root in Sanskrit bhu or bu, Greek <u, Latin ye, and 

 Teutonic bu or ban. The primitive value here appears 

 undoubtedly to be to produce sexually, for this significance 

 at least is common to all the Aryan languages. We then 

 have the notions of procreate, grow, form, and ultimately 

 produce or create in a non-sexual sense. Starting with 

 the Greek we have <uo>, bring forth, produce, beget, 

 generate, grow, wax, etc. : ^vrcop is a father ; (frvo-i,?, 

 creature, kind, sex, and sexual organs, obtained in course 

 of time an overgrowth of abstract notions ; fyvrov is a 

 creature, a plant, a tree, and may be compared with 

 German baum from root bau; ^LTVW and (j^vrevco still 

 carry the notion of bear or beget, or engender ; tyrvs is a 

 begetter, and </>tru, the begotten ; ^vXtj is a clan, connected 



