114 POPULAR NAMES 



hiupa, and jupe, a corruption from Gr. fy&fav, M. Lat. 

 jujuba, the j of which has become hi, as in many other 

 instances, through the intermediate sound of y. Thus Job 

 becomes in German Hiob, and jejunium, hunger, and con- 

 versely an initial hi is in Norway always pronounced y ; 

 hierte, heart, yerte; and similarly in our own western counties 

 heifer becomes yeffer. It seems to confirm this view of the 

 derivation of hip from jujuba, that the Ortus Sanitatis, the 

 figures of which, bad as they are, are traditional copies of 

 very ancient ones, gives (c. ccxx), a rosebush with hips on it 

 for the Jujube, and titles the chapter: " Hanbotten, jujube 

 grece et latine :" the hanbotte being the same as the hage- 

 butte or hip. In the Old Saxon of the Heliand, hiopa seems 

 to have meant the briar rather than the fruit : (1. 3488) 

 " nee oc figun ni lesat an hiopon :" nor gather figs on hips : 

 where hiopon represents the Gr. rpi(3o\o<; of Matth. vii. 16, 

 a word that Wycliffe translates " breris," briars, but our 

 authorized version, less correctly, " thistles." 



Rosa canina, L. 



HIP-WOKT, from the resemblance of the leaf to the aceta- 

 bulum or hip-socket, whence its former name of herba cox- 

 endicum, herb of the hips, Cotyledon umbilicus, Hud. 



HIKSB, G. hirse, L. cererisia, ale, from ale being brewed 

 from it, a kind of millet, Panicum, L. 



HOCK, or HOCK-HERB, the mallow, from Lat. Alcea by 

 the change of / to u, and the usual prefix of h to Lat. words 

 beginning with a vowel upon their becoming English ; Ale, 

 auc, hauc. See HOLLIHOCK. Althaea and Malva, L. 



HOG'S-FENNEL, a coarse rank plant, fennel for a hog, 

 Peucedanum officinale, L. 



HOG-NUT, the pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum, With. 



HOG-WEED, from the fondness of hogs for its roots, the 

 cow-parsnep, Heracleum Sphondylium, L. 



HOLLIHOCK, in Huloet's Dict y . HOLY HOKE, a perplex- 

 ing word. The hock is clearly from the L. alcea, (see 



