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6. Cochrane. This personal name can have signified Elec- 

 tus. Khabanus Maurus (ninth century) writes kachoran, 

 which in modern German would be gekoren. See the word 

 Aghast, where the participle erkoren is mentioned. 



7. Dairy, from metairie. See Curmudgeon and Distaff. 



8. Harbinger. Warburge, a guarantee, personal security 

 for fulfilment, accomplishment, &.C., was composed of war, 

 alluding to existence and truth (war and wahr sound alike), 

 — as in gewahr werden (become aware), gewahren, grant, ac- 

 complish, &c, — and Biirge. This latter being exchanged for 

 mann, and war gradually for war, Avahr, gewahr, &c, the 

 compound now is Gewahrsmann, voucher, &c. ; so that neither 

 it nor harbinger can now be used in the original sense of an 

 officer appointed by law or mutual agreement. Another ob- 

 solete compound with both terminations is salbilrge and sal- 

 mann (Du Cange has saleburgio), the first syllable of which 

 is our sale, sell, and sel in handsel, which Avord occurs in old 

 German, as handsal or handsaal, and is explained by promissio 

 stipulata manu facta, sal having a more general meaning, such 

 as giving up, delivery. 



9-11. Lad, Lass, Lewd (Lend). These words, of which the 

 first two are not noble enough to satisfy children of high rank, 

 and the last even synonymous with vulgar, were originally 

 (together with other terms) used among the ancient Germans 

 to designate the people, or third class, lidi, lati, lassi, leudi, 

 &o, ; whence still the Russian liudi, and the German Leute, both 

 without a singular, which occurs, however, in Lex Burgun- 

 diorum, xviii, : " Quicunque Burgundio optimatis vel medio- 

 cris cum alicujus filia se copulaverit," &c, "Leudis vero si hoc 

 pra3sumpserit facere," &c. The plural of this was leudes. It 

 may join the Greek laos, or the word laut (loud), the less re- 

 spectable being generally more noisy and turbulent. From the 

 same class, called also ruoda (root, uprooting, weeding, ren- 

 dering land arable), the French have their roturier. 



