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by blood and local habitation, but it is also a primitive 

 military unit, a conception precisely identical with what 

 we have traced in the hag and zupa words ; the same 

 range of ideas is also associated with (j>v\ov and other 

 co-radicates. Without the notion of clan we find the 

 purely sexual weight of the root preserved in Latin 

 fecundate, femina, fenus, fetus, and most probably feles, 

 the cat as the fecund one, and felix, the fruitful and so 

 the lucky. 1 Sanskrit has bhu with the conception of swell, 

 burst ; bhuti for source, origin, and buli for the female 

 sex-organs ; while in bhavana we pass to the notion of 

 a dwelling as in the Teutonic words to be considered later. 

 Turning now to the Gothic, we have two or three most 

 valuable fossils. In ufbauljan the primitive notion of 

 swelling is maintained; in gabaur we have Ulfilas's 

 rendering of /cwyu,o?, a common meal and revel ; in gabaur- 

 jopus we have the Gothic for lust and pleasure, while 

 gabaurjaba is fittingly ; lastly, gabauan is to dwell, and 

 bauains, a dwelling. Thus in the root bhu we see the 

 primitive idea of sex again expanding in the side notions 

 of common meal and of dwelling, and of what is pleasur- 

 able and fitting. 2 Besides these Gothic words, the sense 

 of procreation, and so of lust, is still maintained in the 

 widespread German folk-use of bauer; although this word 

 is now used chiefly, but not invariably, for abuse of sex. 

 Just as we found hag and gemach expressing not only 

 dwelling-places, but related through sexual significance 

 to the ideas of comfort and pleasure, so we find bauer also 

 used of a habitation in O.H.G. pur, A.S. bur, and English 

 bower. In particular, it seems used in Old Norse, Old 



1 lafenum, hay, possibly related to the root/e, as hay itself to hi? 

 2 See pp. 143, 160, etc. 



