The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04

represents a survival of the earlier
 aphetlc fornas.5 .@ Vi. gfN
 The old French aprendre is from the
 Latin apprehendere, "to lay hold of,
 to grasp, seize, get" etc. compound
 of ad and prehendere, itself a com
 pound of prae and hendere. The sim
 pie hendere was lost in Latin and only
 prohendere and its compounds sur
 vived.
 The simple verb is a cognate with
 the Greek chandanein, ito take in,
 h old, comprise, contain;" Gothic, bigt-
 tan, ito reach after, find catch," etc.; Old Morse, geta, "to reach after. at tain" Anglo-Saxon, gitan, to get" English, get and guess; Lettish, gedu, ito suppose, to guess" Lithuanian, pasigendu, "to yearn, to long for;" Old Bulgarian, gadaja, ito guess" Alban- ian, gen, ito find" and Cymric. genni, ito contain"
 The principal home of the surname is now in Suffolk and Prentice is the predominant form.
 Pollock, Polk. The Scotch surname Pollok had its origin from the parish and lands of that name in Renfrewshire, near Glas- gow.
 The church at Pollok was dedicated to St. Conval. who died on the 18th of May, about 612 A. D. He may have founded the church and preached there as he became the tutelary saint of the place. An annual fair was held here on the 18th of May, the festival of l the saint, and is still held at Pollok shaws. on the last Friday in May, since ! the change to new style in the calen- dar.
 The territory of Pollok was granted | by David I. to Walter Fitz-Alan. the | first Stewart. Peter of Pollok, the son | of Fulbert, held Pollok under Walter | and granted the church of Pollok with all it's pertfnents to the monastery ef l Paisley, to which 1t continued to be- | long until the Reformation. In the fourteenth century, the name | of the church and parish was changed | from Pollok to Estwode (Eastwood). The lands are still called Pollok or | Pollok, and the principal seat is at l Neither Pollok; nearby is the town of | P6llokshaws.
 The surname Is still frequent in the | Glasgow district. It was early trans- | ferred to America, where it has often | been abbreviated into Polk, said to be unknown In Scotland The name Is from the Gaelic, poll | ach aidh (pronounced pollach-a). sig nifying the pool in a field" The prototheme is the Gaelic poll. "a pool, mud-hole;" cognate with the
 
 Breton, poull; Anglo-Saxon, pol: old | High German, pfuol; German, pfnnl, and Lithuanian, haia of tn 6 same mean I ing.
 The deutorotheme is the Gaelic achadh, the most common of Cetsic terms descriptive of occupied land in | Scotland. Pont explains 1t as "ane Irich word signifying folde or a | crofte of land gained out of a>vylde ground of before vnmanured. Adamnan translated 1t by "campulus. It corresponds in general to our field As a prefix, 1t appears as Acha, Achy. Auch, aral with the article as Auchen, | Auchin snd Achna. As suffix 1t Is | found as -ach, -achy, -agha, -auck, l -auche, -osh and lock. The Irish achadh, ga field" is also l frequent In place names. generally as- | suming in modern dress the forms -agha. -agh or -augh. Daniel, DanieIl, Daniels.
 We have here the most popular trio 1 of patronymics from the personal name Daniel.
 Three persons bear this name iu 1 the Old Testament. David's second son
 in I. Chron. iii. I; priest in the line 1 of Ithamar in Ezra will. and Nehe-
 miah X. 6, and the hero of the book i of Daniel. It is a mooted question 1 whether the last is also the Daniel
 mentioned by Ezekiel (xiv IA, 20 xxvii. 8 as a man of extraordinary
 righteousness or wisdom or whether
 this Is a fourth Daniel otherwise un- 1 known.
 It was the prophet Daniel that made
 the name popular in the East It is
 still a favorite among the Armenians
 Montenegrins and the Slavonic races.