Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland].

  • John Cleland
Date:
1768
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Credit: Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ [ 73_ ] _ the name to S^/z^fej-plainSj is mofl: probably falfe, as is alfo the commonly received notion that' Hoi (in the fenfe of a wood) gives Holbounw^^ tvhereas it certainly means the bounds of the Hal, College, or School liberties • this, not unlikely, is the true foundation of White Frjars having re-* mained traditionally a kind of Mint, or place of re¬ fuge, long after the de(lru61'ion of the Druidical Hall or College, as well as of the Monaftery, wdiicli fucceeded to it, as ufual in the Chriftian form. The liberties, however, the immunities of fuch places continued in virtue of the antient fan61:ion^ for ages after that Druidifm had been extirpated. * Nothing fo currently received as the derivation of our word Fryars from Freres, Brothers lay or fpiritual. It will even at firft found like etimoiogical chicanery to queflion it; and yet, for my own part, I much doubt it* I take it for one of thofe words in v/hich the French, running away from their own language, have drawn us, as they have often done, into error after them. This inftitution, however, not being fo much as pretendedly Apollo- lical, the point may furely be canvaiTed without olfence. Having mentioned (p. 59) the office of thofe allowed to go about begging for the Monks or Stincluary men, their name appears to take its rife precifely from that fervice, Fuor or Forth fignifying out or beyond^ the leveral w'ords by which they were called, which have uo fort of affinity to brother, feem to indicate the true origin. Frey, a contradlion from Fuor-Ey, out of the bounds limited by Law. Frayle [Fpan.') a contraflion of Fuor-Ey-'ioal, out of the precindt of the afyliim, Trade (Port.) a contradlion of Fuor-aid ; Aid fignifying help, or legal protedion, whence the Wclfh word 7iaid (an aith qt aid) and hanxjth for a fandluary. Fuor-highcr, 2, goer abroad (i. -e, out of the bounds) whence the words Frere and Fryar. And as Fuch licenfed beggars for the monks, or fandtuary-men, belonged to diffierent 7nh>Jiers, it is not improbable that they were dikinguifhed by diffierent colors of black, white, gray, &c. In ffiort, a Fryar was, without any the leak affinity to Brother, a licenfed beggar out of the bounds of the minjler, for the fuke- nance of fuch as were con.ffiied to it for the benefit of its pro* tedlio»n,
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