[3] Gaul was inhabited by Celts at least as early as the third century B.C. The Galli, against whom Caesar fought, were Celtic tribes.
[4] Greek ‘hippos’; Lithuanian ‘asva’, etc.
[5] Greek ‘turos’, from which was formed ‘bouturon’ (butter).
[6] σήματα λυγρά.
[7] The modern sense of ‘a small room at the top of the house’ goes back to the time when Attic was also used of architectural refinements, especially that which is achieved by placing a smaller order above a larger one.
[8] But with a good deal of the Celt in us. There is no exact correspondence between language and blood, the one being a measure of an intellectual, the other of a more directly spiritual heritage. Cf. the influence of the Celts upon the meanings of Romance words, [pp. 32], [79], [107], [189].
[9] Students of the Wordsworthian theory of poetic diction will be interested to learn that the origin of this curious word is believed to be a Late Latin phrase, ‘romanice loqui,’ meaning ‘to speak the vulgar Latin of everyday life, as distinguished from book-Latin.’
[10] Bigot, which is found in French as early as the twelfth century, has been connected with Visigoth, but this derivation is not regarded as probable.
[12] These Normans, or North-men, were the descendants of a Teutonic Danish tribe, which had taken possession of Normandy about a hundred and fifty years before.