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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. VII.-SOME CELTIC TRACES IN THE GLOSSES. A. Celtic Words Interpreted. Orge occide, C. G. L. V 376, 29 (Epinal)= ibid. V 316, 70 (Erfurt2)= Corpus (ed. Hessels) O 238; Erfurt' (C. G. L. V 376, 29) has orge. Years ago I had conceived the idea that orge was connected with the orgim (caedo, occido) pointed out by Stokes in the Academy of I891 (p. 589, col. I), and its derivative orgiat (caesar = caesor, i. e. qui caedit, interfector), athir-oirc-nid (parricida), sethar-oirc-nid (sororicida), quoted by Zeuss2, p. I054. But to get an authoritative opinion on the word, I wrote, in 1898, to Dr. Stokes, and here is what he was kind enough to tell me in confirmation: "orge, orge 'occide' is certainly based on the Celtic root org, which Prof. Bezzenberger has connected with Zend arezar 'Schlacht.' Orge may well have been a Gaulish 2d sg. imperative. See the neo-Celtic forms in Zeuss2 443, bir, mil, gaib, from *bere, *mele, *gabe." I am pleased to see that Dr. Stokes made use of the gloss pointed out by me to corroborate his explanation of O'Mulconry's asurg (caedo) as having sprung from *ex-org6. (See Archiv f. kelt. Lexik. I 280.) Further proof for the word is to be found in the compound treorgam (perforo), on record in the Luxembourg folio, p. 2, No. 37, and explained by Prof. Rhys (Rev. Celt. I 503) as composed of tre 'through' and orgam 'I cut.' Cp. also Nigra's esartae 'pro es-arc-te (caesus), nom. sg. part. praet. pass. uerbi esurc, asurc (caedo),' etc. (Gloss. Hib. Vet. Cod. Taur., ed. C. Nigra, Paris, I869, p. 50). The above orge would make it seem somewhat plausible that another strange gloss occurring only in the Epinal, Erfurt, and Corpus glossaries contains a Celtic word in its lemma. The gloss is netcos murus (Epinal); Erfurt-Corpus have naetcos. If one may venture a suggestion in so doubtful a case, netcos appears to stand for nectcos, and the interpretation would then seem to have been shortened and corrupted from mundus [pes]. As to nect (mundus) cf. neacht .i. geal (Lecan Glossary M. go),