beginning have been created with it and in it, as having a meaning with something else, but not having antecedently a meaning of its own?”] [Footnote 9: Cf. D. G. Brinton, _The Myths of the New World_, p. 6, note.] [Footnote 10: Julien, _Exercises Pratiques_, p. 120. Endlicher, _Chineseische Grammatik_, § 161. See, also, Nöldeke, _Orient und Occident_, vol. i. p. 759. _Grammar of the Bornu Language_ (London, 1853), p. 55: “In the Treaty the genitive is supplied by the relative pronoun _agu_, singularly corroborative of the Rev. R. Garnett’s theory of the genitive case.”] [Footnote 11: “Time changes the meaning of words as it does their sound. Thus, many old words are retained in compounds, but have lost their original signification. E.g., _’k·eu_, mouth, has been replaced in colloquial usage by _’tsui_, but it is still employed extensively in compound terms and in derived senses. Thus, _k·wai‘ ’k·eu_ a rapid talker, _.men ’k·eu_, door, _,kwan ’k·eu_, custom house. So also _muh_, the original word for eye, has given place to _’yen, tsing_, or _’yen_ alone. It is, however, employed with other words in derived senses. E.g., _muh hia·_, at present; _muh luh_, table of contents. “The primitive word for head, _’sheu_, has been replaced by _.t‘eu_, but is retained with various words in combination. E.g., _tseh ’sheu_, robber chief.” Edkins, _Grammar of the Chinese Colloquial Language_, 2d edition, 1864, p. 100.] [Footnote 12: Grimm, _Deutsche Grammatik_, ii. 339.] [Footnote 13: Cf. the German Liebhart, mignon, in Anshelm, 1, 335. Grimm, _Deutsche Grammatik_, iii. 707. I feel more doubtful now as to _sweetard_. Dr. Morris mentions it in his _Historical Outlines of English Grammar_, p. 219; but Koch, when discussing the same derivations in his _English Grammar_, does not give the word. Mr. Skeat writes to me: “The form really used in Middle English is _sweeting_. Three examples are given in Stratmann. One of the best is in my edition of William of Palerne, where, however, it occurs not _once_ only (as given by Stratmann), but _four times_, viz.: in lines 916, 1537, 2799, 3088. The lines are:-- ‘Nai, sertes, _sweting_, he seide· that schal I neuer.’ 916 ‘& seide aswithe· _sweting_, welcome!’ 1537 ‘Sertes, _sweting_, thæt is soth. seide william thanne.’ 2799 ‘treuli, _sweting_, that is soth· seide william thane.’ 3088 The date of this poem is about A.D. 1360. Shakespeare has both forms, viz.: _sweeting_ and _sweet-heart_. Chaucer has _swete herte_, just as we should use _sweet-heart_.”] [Footnote 14: Diez, _Grammatik_, ii. 358. Grimm, _Deutsche Grammatik_, i. p. 340, 706.]