{6} The word hardly deserves to be called English, yet in Pope’s time it had made some progress toward naturalization. Of a real or pretended polyglottist, who might thus have served as an universal _interpreter_, he says: “Pity you was not _druggerman_ at Babel”. ‘Truckman’, or more commonly ‘truchman’, familiar to all readers of our early literature, is only another form of this, one which probably has come to us through ‘turcimanno’, the Italian form of the word. [See my _Folk and their Word-Lore_, p. 19]. {7} [‘Tulip’, at first spelt _tulipan_, is really the same word as _turban_ (_tulipant_ just above), which the flower was thought to resemble (Persian _dulband_).] {8} [Ultimately from the Arabic _zabād_ (N.E.D.).] {9} [Apparently to be traced to the Persian _shim-shír_ or _sham-shír_ (“lion’s-nail”), a crooked sword (Skeat).] {10} [Rather through the French from low Latin _satinus_ or _setinus_, a fabric made of _seta_, silk. But Yule holds that it may be from Zayton or Zaitun (in Fokien, China), an important emporium of Western trade in the Middle Ages (_Hobson-Jobson_, 602).] {11} [Probably intended for _cacao_, which is Mexican. _Cocoa_, the nut, is from Portuguese _coco_.] {12} See Washington Irving, _Life and Voyages of Columbus_, b. 8, c. 9. {13} [It is from the Haytian _Hurakan_, the storm-god (_The Folk and their Word-Lore_, 90).] {14} [From old Russian _mammot_, whence modern Russian _mamant_.] {15} [‘Assagai’ is from the Arabic _az-_ (_al-_) _zaghāyah_, ‘the _zagāyah_’, a Berber name for a lance (N.E.D.).] {16} [This puts the cart before the horse. ‘Fetish’ is really the Portuguese word _feitiço_, artificial, made-up, factitious (Latin _factitius_), applied to African amulets or idols.] {17} [‘Domino’ is Spanish rather than Italian (Skeat, _Principles_, ii, 312).] {18} [‘Harlequin’ appears to be an older word in French than in Italian (_ibid._).] {19} On the question whether this ought to have been included among the Arabic, see Diez, _Wörterbuch d. Roman. Sprachen_, p. 10. {20} Not in our dictionaries; but a kind of coasting vessel well known to seafaring men, the Spanish ‘urca’; thus in Oldys’ _Life of Raleigh_: “Their galleons, galleasses, gallies, _urcas_, and zabras were miserably shattered”. {21} [A valuable list of such doublets is given by Prof. Skeat in his large _Etymological Dictionary_, p. 772 _seq._] {22} This particular instance of double adoption, of ‘dimorphism’ as Latham calls it, ‘dittology’ as Heyse, recurs in Italian, ‘bestemmiare’ and ‘biasimare’; and in Spanish, ‘blasfemar’ and ‘lastimar’. {23} [‘Doit’, a small coin (Dutch _duit_) has no relation to, ‘digit’. Was the author thinking of old French _doit_, a finger, from Latin _digitus_?]