1 86 KINDRED GROUP-MARRIAGE 



High German, and Anglo-Saxon for the place of the 

 females or of the bride, the brut in bure? a notion still 

 retained in the form byre, a shed for cows. 



When we turn to bauer, a peasant, we must, in the 

 light of the above, consider it as ultimately related to 

 the primitive sexual value of $v or 6M, and not related 

 directly to the later sense of bauen, to till or cultivate 

 the land. In Scandinavian biti is a neighbour of the 

 male and bua of the female sex, while bu is a home, the 

 household, the household effects, and lastly the cattle of 

 the house; bu or bua is to dwell, and also to rush together, 

 gather, or swarm (Landsmaal), a conception which 

 carries us back to another sex -word ht with its deriva- 

 tive hive. Thus it is seen that the notions attached to 

 Modern German bauen, i.e. to build and to cultivate, 

 are really derivatives, developing out of an original 

 meaning of cohabitation in the double sense. Nor is the 

 primitive weight lost in Old High German. Thus we 

 find buari, whence comes the modern bauer, glossed 

 habitator ; gabur, gaburo is glossed municeps, civis, a 

 burgher, gabura the nominative plural is affines,junctos, 

 contributes, vicini, i.e. relatives, neighbours, clansmen ; 

 geburda is the district ; geburo glosses domesticae res, 

 precisely like bu, the household effects, and may be com- 

 pared with Friesian bodel and budel. Inburro is glossed 

 vemaculus, a domestic ; geburliche dinge are civil and 

 municipal affairs. Thus bauer, like civis itself, takes us 

 from a purely sexual relationship through notions of co- 

 habitation to clanship, from co-dwellers to co-burghers, 



1 In Beowulf brydbtir is used for the queen's apartment. In the Heliand the 

 bdida imu bi thero briMi used of Herod's relation to Philip's wife gives us again 

 the sexual weight of bu. 



