"This is for she-bay; that is, _the female-bay_, this animal being so called from its crying _bay_. Hence it would appear that the word sheep (_she-bay_) did not in the beginning apply equally to both genders, but that it was only in the feminine. When we recollect that the _b_ and the _p_ are frequently confounded, it can be easily admitted that, with our great love for contraction, _sheep_ should be used instead of _sheeb_. An analysis of the French word for sheep (_brebis_) confirms what I have here stated with regard to this animal's being called after its bleat. When analysed, it is _is-bre-be_; of which the literal meaning is, the _bray bay_; that is, the _cry bay_ or _the breath bay_, for the word _breath (bray the)_ is no other than _the bray_ which became _breath_ from the article _the_ falling behind _bray_. And this again is confirmed by an analysis of the word _bleat_, which makes _it_-BE-_il-ea_, or _it bay il e_, and means, _the bay it is_, that is, it is the cry of the sheep." "_Mons_," says Mr Kavanagh, "is the original of _monster_ in English, of _monstre_ in French, and _monstrum_ in Latin. Then the literal meaning of these words is--_monster, it is to be a mountain; est er_ literally means 'it is the thing,' and, of course, these two words first preceded _mon_, thus, _est er mon_ (it is the thing mountain.) _Monstre_ is for _mon estre_, this _estre_ being the infinitive _etre_, and the same as _est re_ (it is the thing.) _Monstrum_ is more modern in its form than either the English word _monster_, or the French word _monstre_, since it has in its composition the pronoun _um_, besides what these two words have. Then the Latins had _monstre_ or _monster_ before they had _monstrum_; and they must have said _um monstre_ or _um monster_ just as the French say now _le monstre_."