How different it is when we come to consider the Teutons! When we have abstracted all the Latin words, the French words, the Celtic words, etc., from our vocabulary, the “English” words which remain are all Teutonic; for we, ourselves, are a branch of the Teutonic race.[8] Accordingly some of our older and most English words contain buried vestiges of the lives which our ancestors once lived in the continental forests. _Fear_, which is thought to be derived from the same word as _fare_, has been taken to suggest the dangers, and _weary_, which is traced to an old verb meaning ‘to tramp over wet ground’, the fatigues of early travel, while _learn_ goes back to a root which meant ‘to follow a track’. As the Italiot Aryans, the Romans, created and extended their great empire, they came into contact with these barbaric Teutonic tribes, whom they regarded, naturally enough, not as kinsmen, but as strangers. We find some of the results of this contact in such words as _inch_, _kitchen_, _mile_, _mill_, _pound_, _street_, _toll_, _wall_, and _table_—all of which are Latin words borrowed by our ancestors while they were still living on the Continent together with the ancestors of the Scandinavian, Dutch, German, Austrian, and Swiss nations. By their nature these words suggest civilizing influences, and we find in their company the names of more portable articles, such as _chest_, _dish_, _kettle_, _pillow_, and _wine_, which traders might have brought with them on their beasts of burden. This hypothesis becomes almost a certainty when it is seen that _mule_ and _ass_ were borrowed from Latin at this time; that _-monger_ (in _costermonger_, _fishmonger_, ...) is a corruption of ‘mango’, the Latin name for a trader; and that the old English _ceapian_, ‘to buy’, which we still keep in _chap_, _chapman_, _cheap_, ... goes back to ‘caupones’, the Roman name for wine-dealers. A few words like _pepper_ even seem to have come in at this time from the remote East, by way of Rome, and altogether these old Teutonic words may indeed give us, as Mr. Pearsall Smith has said, “a dim picture of Roman traders, travelling with their mules and asses along the paved roads of the German provinces, their chests and boxes and wine-sacks, and their profitable bargains with our primitive ancestors”. Finally, the military words _camp_ and _pile_ recall the heyday of the Empire, when Rome would recruit vast armies from her provincial subjects; and even _church_ (another word common to all the Teutonic languages) may have been brought home by German mercenaries on service in the East. The Greek ‘Kuriakon’, from which it is said to be derived, was in use in the Eastern provinces, as opposed to the ‘ecclesia’ (French ‘église’, Italian ‘chiesa’ and _ecclesiastical_) of Latin Christianity, and our pagan forefathers probably picked it up accidentally while they were pillaging the sacred buildings in which their posterity was to kneel.