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©eruft; but perhaps this opinion may be not 

 quite unbiassed, as it forms part of his advo- 

 cacy of lUme as an original German word. 

 This -der figures in some of our place- 

 names, as, Appledore, Maple Durham (ma- 

 pulder ham), Powderham (apulder ham). 



hune. It stands alone, as, ' Marrubium hune ' 

 and also in composition: — hare hune (hore- 

 hound). 



-latJe (-lsec5e) : — attor, sattor (?). It answers 

 to the Latin termination -fitga, as, 'Feni- 

 fuca [=venenifuga] Attor-lathe.' Durh. 



-leae(-lec) : — crawan, crop, enne^, fugeles, gar, 

 hoi, hrefnes, hwit, jpor, yne. 



-leaf : — a^^pel leaf (violet). 



-loppe : — cuslojyjye. 



-moru : — -feld moru (carrot), iveal moru (par- 

 snip). The carrot is in German mij^re, in 

 0. H. German moraha, and Fuchs tells us 

 the druggists called it 2)iore. In Russian it 

 is morkovi, Lit. morka, morkva (Pictet), 

 and Grassmann adds Old Indian mula root, 

 with a diminutive mulaka : so that here we 

 seem to have a very old word for Root, 

 which has become special for the most con- 

 spicuous tap-roots. There is Welsh moron 

 (pi.) for tap-roots, comprising carrot, par- 

 snip, radish. In Devonshire I remember 

 when more (pronounced broadly maiver) was 



