4. So also is the derivation of the modern word _Dutch_, in all its varied forms:--Old High-German, _Diutisc_; Anglo-Saxon, _The['o]disc_; Latin, _Theodisca_, _Theudisca_, _Teutisca_; Italian, _Tedesco_; Danish, _Tyske_; English, _Dutch_; the latter part of the word being the adjectival ending _-isc_=_ish_. {58} 5. The original meaning being _of, or belonging to, the people_, or _of, or belonging to, the nation_, secondary meanings grew out of it. 6. Of these the most remarkable are _a_) the power given to the word in Ulphilas (_heathen_), illustrated by the similarly secondary power of the Greek [Greek: ethnikos]; _b_) the meaning _vernacular_, _provincial_ or _vulgar_ given to it as applied to language. 7. This latter power was probably given to it about the ninth century. 8. That it was not given much before, is inferred from negative evidence. The word _theotisca_ is not found in the Latin writers of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, although there are plenty of passages where it might well have been used had it existed. The terms really used are either _patrius sermo_, _sermo barbaricus_, _sermo vulgaricus_, _lingua rustica_; or else the names of particular tribes, as _lingua Anglorum_, _Alamannorum_. 9. That it was current in the ninth century is evident from a variety of quotations:--_Ut quilibet episcopus homilias aperte transferre studeat in rusticam Romanam linguam, aut _theotiscam_, quo tandem cuncti possint intelligere quae dicantur._--Synodus Turonensis. _Quod in lingua _Thiudisca_ scaftlegi, id est armorum depositio, vocatur._--Capit. Wormatiense. _De collectis quas _Theudisca_ lingua heriszuph appellat._--Conventus Silvacensis. _Si _barbara_, quam _Teutiscam_ dicunt, lingua loqueretur._--Vita Adalhardi, &c.--D.G., i. p. 14, _Introduction_. 10. That its present national sense is wholly secondary and derivative, and that originally it was no more the name of a people or a language than the word _vulgate_ in the expression _the vulgate translation of the Scriptures_ is the name of a people or a language.