546 Rev. Mr Williams on one Source of the 



from this root. To deny this would be equivalent to a denial that 

 the Latin verb, calcare, came from calx the heel. In the following 

 list such words alone, with a few exceptions, for the sake of ety- 

 mological illustration, have been introduced. It might have been 

 indefinitely extended, but the difficulty was to confine the ex- 

 amples within moderate limits. 



Am, around ; Am-Terminum, 1 quoted by Macrobius from Cato's Origines. It is 

 needless to quote the various opinions of the learned upon the subject. In 

 Owen's Dictionary under the word we find : " Am, prep, round, about. In 

 composition it answers to circum, as ' amgylchii," to circumscribe." " Am y 

 tan, round the fire." Hence 



Amo, I go round — I embrace — I love. Amplector, I clasp in my embrace, has the 

 same meaning. Cicero, Fam. Ep. Lib. vi. Ep. 6. " Me amicissime quotidie 

 magis Cesar amplectitur ;" i. e. adds Forcelliki, Amat. So, Sall. Bell. Jug. 

 cap. 7 : " Aliquem in amicis habere magis magisque indies amplecti." 1 Thus, 

 " Amplexor, (Cicer. ad Quint. Frat. Lib. ii. Ep. 12.) Appius me totum amplex- 

 atur," h. e. Valde Amat. The Greek Ayuvri, has the same meaning. 



2 Am-truo, to turn round ; compounded of Am, and Troi, to turn. " Amdroi (vid. 

 Ow. Diet.), to revolve, to circulate. 11 



Axilla, contracted ; Ala, a wing ; nlegov, membrum illud quo aves volant ; me- 

 taphorically, an armpit. Now Asgel (by a common change Ag-sel), plur. Esgyl, 

 is a wing (vid. Ow. Diet.), of which the Cornish form was Esel, plur. Esili. 

 But Asg, the root, signifies separation, a splinter ; the same idea which guided 

 man in naming limbs, /Mgn, Brachia, &c. 



Astula — As-del (vulgo Astel, plur. Estyl), a plank; compounded of As, a plain 

 or flat, and Del, separation ; verb Delti, to split. The English word Deal is cog- 

 nate in origin and meaning. Without any collusion or suspicion of any such oc- 

 currence, Barker's Forcellini, has under Astula, " a board, lath, shingle ;" 

 and Ow. Diet, under Asdel, " a board, plank, shingle. 11 



1 " Quidam putant, antiquitus fuisse separabilem afferuntque illud fragmentum." — Caton. in ori- 

 ginibus apud Macrobium, Lib. i. satur. cap. 14. Am-Terminuin, Circa-Terminum, super quo tamer; 

 miras eruditi lites excitarunt. — Forcell. in loco. Hence we have a preposition in common use 

 among the Cumri, which nevertheless had ceased to be so used in Rome long before the Romans in- 

 vaded Britain. 



2 An ancient word, which, like most other expressions which they did not understand, has been 

 especially maltreated by commentators. I add Forcellini's account of it : " Am truo vel Amptruo. 

 to turn round in the dance. Antiquum verburn ab Am, circum, et trua, quaa est instrumentum ad 

 movendum vel agitandum. Significat motus et saltus quos edebant Salii sacerdotes in suis sacris. Ho- 

 rum enim qui primus erat, amtruare dicebatur, et qui post eum movebantur et saltitabant, invicem 

 motus reddentes, redamtruare." Cels. apud Festum, Redamptruare. Something analogical to the 

 Strophe and Antistrophe of the Greek Chorus. 



