istinct word _re-cover_,
to cover or clothe over again, which comes from old French
_covrir_, Latin _co-operire_. It is just the difference between
'recovering' a lost umbrella through the police and 'recovering' a
torn one at a shop. I pointed this out to the author in 1869, and
I think he altered the passage in his later editions.]

{251} ['Island', though cognate with Anglo-Saxon _ea-land_ "water-land"
(German _ei-land_), is really identical with Anglo-Saxon
_ig-land_, i.e. "isle-land", from _ig_, an island, the diminutive
of which survives in _eyot_ or _ait_.]

{252} [The editor essayed to make a complete collection of this class of
words in his _Folk-etymology, a Dictionary of Words corrupted by
False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy_, 1882, and more recently in
a condensed form in _The Folk and their Word-Lore_, 1904.]

{253} Diez looks with much favour on this process, and calls it, ein
sinnreiches mittel fremdlinge ganz heimisch zu machen.

{254} Ammianus Marcellinus, xxii, 15, 28.

{255} [The Greek _pyramis_ probably represents the Egyptian
_piri-m-uisi_ (Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, 358), or
_pir-am-us_ (Brugsch, _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, i, 73), rather
than _pi-ram_, 'the height' (Birch, _Bunsen's Egypt_, v, 763).]

{256} Tacitus, _Hist._ v. 2.

{257} Let me illustrate this by further instances in a note. Thus
{Greek: boutyron}, from which, through the Latin, our 'butter' has
descended to us, is borrowed (Pliny, _H.N._ xxviii. 9) from a
Scythian word, now to us unknown: yet it is sufficiently plain
that the Greeks so shaped and spelt it as to contain apparent
allusion to _cow_ and _cheese_; there is in {Greek: boutyron} an
evident feeling after {Greek: bous} and {Greek: tyron}. Bozra,
meaning citadel in Hebrew and Phoenician, and the name, no doubt,
which the citadel of Carthage bore, becomes {Greek: Byrsa} on
Greek lips; and then the well known legend of the ox-hide was
invented upon the name; not having suggested it, but being itself
suggested by it. Herodian (v. 6) reproduces the name of the Syrian
goddess Astarte in a shape that is significant also for Greek
ears--{Greek: Astroarche:}, The Star-ruler, or Star-queen. When
the apostate and hellenizing Jews assumed Greek names, 'Eliakim'
or "Whom God has set", became 'Al