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 11 S. I. MAY 7, 1910.]

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"Ljus n (11 S. i. 209, 273). I am obliged by PROF. SKEAT'S marking of the quantity of u in the Armenian form lus-. But I did not insinuate that s in that word is what PROF. SKEAT asserts s in ljus, Ijos, to be namely, non-radical. I intended, if the Armenian vowel really was long, to suggest (1) that the Armenian, Icelandic, and Old Irish forms, to wit, lus-, Ijos, and Us-, are not deducible from the prehistoric root *leuk, *louk ; (2) that s in these words is purely radical; and (3) that PROF. SKEAT and other philologists who have invented the form Ijuh-sa, in order to derive the Icelandic Ijos therefrom, do not appear to have taken the Armenian and Irish forms into consideration. These suggestions I make now.

When Dr. Brugmann connected the Armenian lois, lus-oy, with Idg. *leuq, *louq, two matters demanded explanation : the nature of the vowels and the divergence of the final consonant. PROF. SKEAT reports that Dr. Brugmann was unable to explain the vowel-change, and that he admitted that Armenian s for Idg. q was " an unusual phenomenon." This is very weak, and I prefer to think that there were two Idg. roots for " light," one l + q, the other l + s. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

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'SVABACH" (11 S. i. 265). This proper name, which more correctly should be rendered Shvabach (to indicate the Bohemian or Chekh character and sound of s, with the diacritical sign above it), is. originally, that of the little historic Bavarian town of Schwabach. " Schwa - bacher Schrift " denotes the particular kind of German fracture Writing (Fraktur-Schrift, as distinguished from Antiqua, or Latin letters), applied both to printing and hand- writing, which was first used at Schwabach. As a place-name, it is derived from Schwabe = Swabian, the name of the South German people, the Suevi of Caesar and Tacitus, and Ach = aqua. Jos. Jungmann in his great Clickli Dictionary of 1838 has "Shvab = Xt mec, ein Deutscher," and " Shvabashina = Schwabach Schrift." H. KREBS.

"YEAR" (11 S. i. 264). With reference to my friend DR. KREBS'S valuable note, it is worth mentioning that the German Jahnnarkt, annual fair, has been adopted by Slavonic languages (Russian yarmarka, Cech jar mark) to denote a market, and that the distinctive sense of the first part of the word Appears to have been ignored. In Russian

there are adjectives yarmonotshny and yarmorotshny, pertaining to the market. In Cech there are jarmarciti, to bargain, and jarmarecnik, marketman, mountebank.

With regard to the term yar, discussed by DR. KREBS, it appears in Cech as jary, youthful, fresh, early ; jarost, jarota, youth - fulness ; Jarboh, Phoebus Apollo ; and Jarovit, the ancient Slav Mars. I am aware, however, that the identification of the Slav deities is often conjectural, as Prof. Louis Leger has shown (vide ' La Mythologie Slave,' and the discussion of Perun in ' N. & Q. ? ). The above words are taken from Prof. Dr. V. E. Mourek's dictionary of Bohemian and English.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streathani Common.

' ' MOTHER OF FREE PARLIAMENTS n (11 S. i. 227, 315). SIR HARRY POLAND aptly quotes John Bright' s sentence, "England is the mother of Parliaments.'* In the peroration of the same speech Bright called England " the august mother of free nations." I suspect that ' ' Mother of Free Parliaments " is an amalgam of the two phrases.

G. W. E. R.

CART FAMILY ARMS (11 S. i. 289). See Edmondson's ' Heraldry,' 1760 :

1. Argent, stag's head cabossed, between the horns an etoile gules.

2. Sable, a stag's head cabossed or, an etoile for difference.

3. Argent, saltier gules between four palm trees erased vert (London and Dunstable, Beds).

For crests see Washbourne's ' Family Crests ' :

1. Stag's head, in mouth a serpent : all proper.

2. A hand holding a club in pale : all proper (Scotch).

Samuel Carte, divine and antiquary, born 21 Oct., 1652/3 ; M.A. Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 1675 ; Rector of Eastwell, Leics., Vicar of St. Martin's, Leicester, and Pre- bendary of Lincoln ; died 1740.

Thomas, his son, born 1686 at Clifton, Warwickshire : B.A. Oxford, 1702 ; refused to take oath of allegiance to George I. in 1715 ; reader in the Abbey Church, Bath ; Jacobite ; fled abroad 1722 ; died 1754.

" Samuel Carte, Esq.," described as of St. George's Bloomsbury, Middlesex, was executor to Mrs. Jane Willis (who died 13 Nov., 1744, buried West Cloister, West- minster Abbey). See ' Westminster Abbey Register,' by J. L. Chester, 1876.