[20] _Yes_ is probably not the same word as the German _ja_ (whose significant form is lost), though our _yea_ is. [21] See below, pp. 70-80. [22] These two words have, it is true, quite changed their meanings; but our _knight_ rose to its honourable sense from having come to be used only for the servants or attendants of the king (in battle), while the German word retained its older sense of servant, groom, only. [23] See above, p. 66. [24] The reader who does not know Latin may easily recognize the kindred forms in French, Italian, Spanish, etc. [25] Mr. Max Müller calls it the _terminational_ stage. [26] _Agone_ is possibly from a stronger form _âgan_, ‘to pass away.’ [27] To get the full sound of the _th_, this should be said not as we pronounce our article _the_ (which really has the sound _dhe_), but like the first part of Thebes, theme, etc. [28] Cf. the Greek _klutos_. [29] Stephen, _Lectures on the History of France_. [30] This is the theory of Aryan origins still most generally accepted. It has, however, been maintained by several philologists that there is no evidence of an Asiatic origin of the European nations. [31] See Chapter I. [32] Among the Iberians, however, the Celtic blood was much diluted with an infusion of that of an earlier Turanian race allied to the modern Basques. [33] Or say, rather, the people of Italy. Only the Etruscans must probably be excepted from the category, and the Gauls, who subsequently settled themselves in Cisalpine Gaul. [34] The principal among these laws were elaborated by Jacob Grimm, and hence called ‘Grimm’s Laws.’ They may be seen in his _Teutonic Grammar_, and also in his _History of the German Tongue_. [35] Because they would be hardly likely to give a fresh name to such an intimate relationship as the daughter. On the other hand, it seems necessary that the Aryan race must have been in the hunter state at some period, and equally necessary that they must _then_ have had a word for daughter. Milking, it may be urged, might be practised before the domestication of animals. See also Chapter VI. [36] Supreme, because his title became a supreme title among these _different_ Aryan stocks. [37] And this without any reproach to the industry of those at work. The volumes of Kühn’s _Zeitschr. für vergleichende Sprachforschung_, Lazarus and Steinthal’s _Zeitsch. f. Völkerpsychologie_, M. Pictet’s fascinating _Origines indo-européennes_, etc., are storehouses which display the treasures already obtained.