398 REMARKS ON CERTAIN WORDS IN 



Trovare. In confirmation of the derivation of this word from 

 turbare, it may be remarked, that invenio is literally to come in 

 upon. A person comes in upon you, finds you, or disturbs you; 

 the ideas manifestly being akin. So too the dog puts up the 

 game, disturbs it, or finds it. 



Hurepe. This word with a little modification of the spelling 

 occurs in La lattaille de Karesme et de Charnage*, as the name 

 of a fish ; I suppose the Barrel. 



Mora. In Dante this word is explained to mean a heap of 

 stones. "La grave mora" occurs in one of the early cantos of 

 the Purgatorio. 



Estdble. It seems difficult to separate stall from stable: in 

 Marie de France (Purgatory of St Patrick) we find estaule in 

 the sense of stabilis, and in English the stall was until lately 

 spelt with a u. 



Colmena. In the Vulgate the phrase * corner of the house- 

 top ' is translated angulus domatis ; and in the Yaudois trans- 

 lation the second word is rendered by colme. In the " Book of 

 Virtues" colme is replaced by meysoneta. So that there is little 

 doubt that colme was used for little dome or cupola rising above 

 the level of the roof. The transition from this sense to that of 

 lee-hive is from the form of the latter obvious, and the theme of 

 both colme and colmena must be culmen. 



Cafre. Diez remarks in his grammar, that of the Arabic 

 words in Spanish hardly any refer to things of human feeling. 

 It seems very improbable that the word for Infidel should have 

 been taken from the Arabs, who did not call themselves so, and 

 with whom the Christians were not likely to come to an under- 

 standing as to its use. Considering that the word occurs also 

 in French, and the facility with which aspirates of different 

 organs pass into one another, I think the word must be Cathar, 

 the origin, as it is well known, of the German word Ketzer; 

 though Diez has remarked, he is not aware of any case in which 

 the Greek becomes/, but the induction must be founded on a 

 small number of cases. 



Indarno. It is so very unlikely that it should come from 

 the Sclavonic that I think it must be simply in danno, with the 

 first n changed into r. Compare the French phrase en pure 

 perte. 



* In Fabliaux et Cvntes; edition of Barbazan, Vol. iv. p. 85. 



