that it first occurs in the sixteenth century, and the first date he gives for a quotation in which it is found is 1552. The word in this sense, we can hardly doubt, was imported into our language from Latin, and was one of the many instances of the infusion of our tongue with classical phraseology in the sixteenth century. In earlier dayB the people we now call German were known in English writings as' Dutch or Almaynes. _ It was later that the name Dutch wai restricted to one section of the

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... te, namely, to the people of the Netherlands, The word German is also used in English, not for a race or a tribe, but for,a blood relation, and is thus used both alone, u by Caxton, 1 and in composition, e-g. hroib ex-germ an or sister-german, which are found as early as 1S40-1882, and cousin-germ an, which occurs in 1880.* In this Bense also the word waa clearly taken over into English from Latin, in which language it occurs with a similar meaning. In Latin the word Qermanwi, hke the word German in English, has a double connotation. In one sense it means brother. Festus connects it with the Latin root gcrmen, which we have adopted into English in the words germ and