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baum : ceder- (cedar), ciris- (cherry), 

 cisten- (chesnut), cwic- (quick-beam), ele- 

 (olive-tree), hnut- (nut), laur- (laurel), mor- 

 (mulberry tree), wanabeam. In modern 

 English we have the compound hornbeam', 

 and more obscurely whitebeam ; but as a 

 common noun beam means only dead 

 timber, lignum, tignum. 



-bolle seems to mean ball : — chesbolle and 

 chespolle (poppy). 



-codde, bag : — pes-codde. 



-corn : — byb-, gi^-, lihh-, mold-, sund-. 



-cup : — Butter-cup, Gold-cup, King-cup. Dr. 

 Prior takes this cupt for cop, i. e. head, knop. 

 Thus, it would represent the French houton, 

 as iu Bouton d'or. 



-der : — cqndder, mcqyuJder. An ancient form 

 of the word tree, probably one with Greek 

 8p0f. It seems to be the same word in elder, 

 which the Germans call ^^olunbcr, and popu- 

 larly ^olber. But -der is strictly the Low 

 Dutchform.forwhichthe High Dutchis-iera. 

 It has been questioned whether we should 

 recognise this in -ter of Oiiiper, a German 

 name for the Elm. Grassmann's explana- 

 tion would exclude this. He takes O^iifter 

 to be just the tree good for scaffolding 



