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18. Enumerate the chief Germanic populations connected by ancient writers with the _Angles_, stating the Ethnological relations of each, and noticing the extent to which they coincide with those of the Angles. 19. What are the reasons for believing that there is a _Frisian_ element in the population of England? 20. Exhibit, in a tabular form, the languages and dialects of the Celtic stock. To which division did the Gallic of ancient Gaul, and the Pict belong? Support the answer by reasons. What were the relations of the Picts to the Gaelic inhabitants of Scotland? What to the Lowland Scotch? What to the Belgae? 21. Explain the following words--_petorritum_, _pempedula_, _candetum_, _Epona_, _Nantuates_, _peann fahel_ and _Bernicia_. What inferences do you draw from the derivation of them? 22. Exhibit, in a tabular form, the languages and dialects of the Classical stock. 23. What is the bearing of the statements of Tacitus and other ancient writers respecting the following Germanic populations upon the ethnological relations of the Angles,--Aviones, Reudigni, Suevi, Langobardi, Frisii, Varini? 24. What is meant by the following terms, Provencal, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oyl, Limousin, and Norman-French? 25. What languages, besides the Celtic and Latin, enter into the composition of the French? * * * * * PART II. HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. * * * * * CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. s. 70. The Celtic elements of the present English fall into five classes. 1. Those that are of late introduction, and cannot be called original and constituent parts of the language. Some of such are the words _flannel_, _crowd_ (a fiddle), from the Cambrian; and _kerne_ (an Irish foot-soldier), _galore_ (enough), _tartan_, _plaid_, &c., from the Gaelic branch. 2. Those that are originally common to both the Celtic and Gothic stocks. Some of such are _brother_, _mother_, in Celtic _brathair_, _mathair_; the numerals, &c. 3. Those that have come to us from the Celtic, but have come to us through the medium of another language. Some of such are _druid_ and _bard_, whose _immediate_ source is, not the Celtic but the Latin. 4. Celtic elements of the Anglo-Norman, introduced into England after the Conquest, and occurring in that language as remains of the original Celtic of Gaul. 5. Those t
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