224 ON ERRATA RECEPTA. 



in their native shape, nor, in some casea, used in their proper rela- 

 tions. In ray collection I may include some instances not of very 

 recent introduction, ■which may therefore from familiarity of use, not 

 at the first glance be obvious examples of errata recepta ; and some, 

 that, although they may have reached us through the Italian and 

 Frefncb, yet entered those languages from Teutonic dialects, and 

 cannot be understood etymologically in English without an acquain- 

 tance "with this fact in their history. 



1. To begin, then, with some of the parts and materials of a 

 house, and some familiar objects in and about a house. I mention 

 first a word which will be more familiar to the Canadian than the 

 English reader. The partially-closed-in verandah often attached to 

 the kitchen-part of a farm-house is commonly called with us, a 

 stoop. This is the Low German stoep, and properly signifies the 

 Btep, or platform before the door. Again, shingle, a slate of cleft- 

 wood, so to speak, is strictly schindel. High German for the same 

 thing. In like manner, deal, applied by us to a plank of pine-wood 

 exclusively, is dieh, denoting in German any kind of [jlank. Clap- 

 hoard is the Low German klap-hout, hout being ivood or timber. 

 Sas, a word in the same dialect, signifying a sluice, gives us sash, in 

 window-sash; the frame containing the glass ascending and des- 

 cending after the manner of a sluice-gate. A sash is thus, in idea as 

 well as in fact, an air-sluice. Lobby and lodge are ultimately the 

 Hif^h German laube, a bower of lauben, i.e. leaves. Lodge has come 

 to us through the Erench loge and the Italian loggia ; but these are 

 both the Old High German lavbja, the same as the modern Ger- 

 man laube. Laubja was Latinized into laubia, whence the Grison 

 laupia, and the Piedraontese lobia, first a gallery in a church, then 

 our lobby. Loggia in Italian still denotes a leafy verandah; thus in 

 "Italian PictureB," in Blackwood, January, 1S65 : — 



" I Bit upon my loggia, where the vines 

 Spread their green shadow to keep ofif the sun." 



Hamper, henniper, meaning now with us, a kind of basket, is the 

 Old High German hnapf, a bowl or basin, written in the modern 

 language napf. In the expression hammer-cloth, hamper has under- 

 gone a further transformation. Ticket, coming to us through the 

 French etiquette, (formerly estiquette) is from the German verb- 

 ttechen, and has reference, in the first instance, to the "bills" which 



