4. If _Caterer_ proceeded from the Spanish, it arrived thus--_Recatero_--_Recaterer_--_Caterer_; the _c_ for _g_ being either the natural result from the accent which the majority of speakers withdrew from the latter syllable of the word, or is accounted for by "_Recatear lo mismo que regatear_:" the derivation from _re_ and _cautus_, as given by Covarrubias, likewise protects the _c_. 5. It is possible that the primitive root _Kat_ or _Gat_, in the sense of hollow, hole, cavity, cave, &c., whence _Gate_, _Cot_, _Cottage_, _Cattegat_ (Sinus Codanus), probably also _Regatta_, was the first element of both the Spanish and the English term; the spot or situation where the eatables were originally exposed for sale thus causing them first to be called _cates_ (a plural noun like wages), then the singular _cate_, &c., the noun of agent having most probably preceded the verb _cater_, which has come last. A similar derivation is certain with regard to _huckster_, which, besides _huckeback_, joins the Swedish _hökare_, German _Höker_, &c., from the bending, crooked, or squatting position in some brook or crook or corner. 6. The verb _Rehete_ is aptly derived by Jamieson from _Rehaiter_; both are extinct, yet their kindred _heiter_ (formerly _haiter_), with its two verbs _erheitern_ and _aufheitern_, are still in full vigour among the Germans, to whom they afford serenity of mind, mood, and weather. The French compound word for wishing, _souhaiter_, refers its verb _haiter_ to the Swedish _heta_, German _heissen_, Anglo-Saxon _hetan_, as in _Ulf het aræran cyrice_, "ULF bid rear the church" (see Latham, _Engl. Lang._ 1850, p. 99.): now if also from the _haiter_ of that compound we may suppose a derivative _Rehaiter_, or at least one of the kind to have served Chaucer in his participle _Reheting_, which has been the puzzle of his commentators in the following passage from _Troilus_ (III. line 350.): "And all the reheting of his sikes (sighs) sore, At ones fled, he felt 'hem no more;" we may easily understand thereby that, as it were, a rebidding, an importunate insisting upon, the repetition of his sighs, ceased and were at an end; so that in the time of Edward III. a person complaining of a troublesome cough, headache, &c., might call it a reheting cough, &c. II. MOKE. (See the said _Three Treatises_, pages cxxxvii, and Notes, pages ccxx. ccxxiii-iv.) Wyckliffe using the possessive "_their moke_," not the mere "a," as we would say, I would not give "a pin," "a button," &c., together with the evidence of the Irish _muc_, and the obsolete German _Mocke_, which has been defined "Sus foeminea, quæ ob foetus alitur," hardly leaves a doubt that he means that animal, which may be traced also in the words _muck_, _mucky_, &c. The reader may judge for himself by the following passage:--