_zero_, 121 _zodiac_, 128-30 _zone_, 16 Zoroastrianism, 76 N.B.—Words printed in italics in the Index will be found italicized in the text also, unless the page-number is between brackets. This signifies that on the page in question the word is used or referred to _incidentally_, and may or may not be typographically distinguished. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED PRINTERS, LONDON AND WOKING FOOTNOTES: [1] See p. 126. [2] The linear writing of Cretan inscriptions has been pointed to by one writer as a sign of this passivity. Philologists have also pointed out the important position occupied by the verb in Aryan speech. [3] Gaul was inhabited by Celts at least as early as the third century B.C. The _Galli_, against whom Caesar fought, were Celtic tribes. [4] Greek ‘hippos’; Lithuanian ‘asva’, etc. [5] Greek ‘turos’, from which was formed ‘bouturon’ (butter). [6] σήματα λυγρά. [7] The modern sense of ‘a small room at the top of the house’ goes back to the time when _Attic_ was also used of architectural refinements, especially that which is achieved by placing a smaller order above a larger one. [8] But with a good deal of the Celt in us. There is no exact correspondence between language and blood, the one being a measure of an intellectual, the other of a more directly spiritual heritage. Cf. the influence of the Celts upon the _meanings_ of Romance words, pp. 32, 79, 107, 189. [9] Students of the Wordsworthian theory of poetic diction will be interested to learn that the origin of this curious word is believed to be a Late Latin phrase, ‘romanice loqui,’ meaning ‘to speak the vulgar Latin of everyday life, as distinguished from book-Latin.’ [10] _Bigot_, which is found in French as early as the twelfth century, has been connected with _Visigoth_, but this derivation is not regarded as probable. [11] See p. 31. [12] These Normans, or _North-men_, were the descendants of a Teutonic Danish tribe, which had taken possession of Normandy about a hundred and fifty years before. [13] See p. 31. [14] At least down to the fourteenth century. Even in Milton’s time it was the language of international scholarship. [15] Latin ‘capitalis’ from ‘caput’—a head, and thus “the status of Roman citizenship”. Under the old Roman law each citizen was assessed according to the number of beasts which he possessed. Thus, the word _cattle_ is also derived, through French, from ‘capitalis’. Compare the derivation of _pecuniary_ from ‘pecus’—a head of cattle, and _fee_ from Old English ‘feoh’ (cattle). [16] First found with the meaning of _Sunday_ in an edict of the Long Parliament.