BEMABKS ON CERTAIN WOBDS IN DIEZ'S ETY- 

 MOLOGISCHES WOBTEBBUCH DEB EOMANIS- 

 CHEN SPBACHEN (ETYMOLOGICAL DICTION- 

 ARY OF THE BOMANCE LANGUAGES)* 



Addobbare. Is it not from adoperari? The word occurs so 

 early and is so much used that it can scarcely have been derived 

 from chivalry. 



Camicia. As the b in cannabis becomes m in Spanish, I 

 would assume the following forms: canamisia, canmisia, ca- 

 misia ; the last being the form given by St Jerome, who speaks 

 of it as a linen garment : this explanation is confirmed by the 

 old French form chamse. 



Laquais. Laquet, Naquet, NacJct, viz. Light-armed-men : the 

 word being plainly military and German. Compare the Greek 

 7u/^rJ9. The same class of people were also called pages and 

 servants or sergeants. Addison is right in supposing that ser- 

 geants-at-law represent the serving brothers of the Temple ; the 

 judges who called them " Brothers" being the Knights. 



Albricias corresponds to the German botenbrod, and means 

 what is given to a messenger if you are pleased with him, as 

 when he brings you good news. I believe the true form is 

 albergias, or something of that kind, and the literal meaning 

 Tierberg e-money or gifts, that is, gifts for the entertainment of 

 the messenger. The German word in the Nibelungen Lied, 

 and the Spanish in the Cid. 



Travar. Considering the French form entraver, it seems 

 more likely that the root of these words is trabea and not trabs. 

 From trabea came trabeare and trabeatio, the latter used in the 

 sense of Incarnation. The idea of entraver is simply wrapping 

 up in clothes, so as to hinder the free motion of the limbs. 



* Now first published. 



