Cash appears to be from the French caisse, a chest, cash.
J. W. Thomas.
Dewsbury.
Cash is from the French caisse, the moneychest where specie was kept. So caissier became "cashier," and specie "cash."
Mob, Swift tells us (Polite Conversation, Introd.), is a contraction for mobile.
Clericus Rusticus has not, I fear, Johnson's Dictionary, where both these derivations are given.
C.
Ampers &. (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 284.; Vol. viii. passim).—Mr. Ingleby may well ask what "and-per-se-and" can mean. The fact is, this is itself a corruption. In old spelling-books, after the twenty-six letters it was customary to print the two following symbols with their explanations
&c. et cetera.
& (per se), and.