The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23


 eonivsitnt is aMaithafns of Malt fhsir ale and tho surnaTns ss Matter. Msit- ster. Mailman and Malthus d. c. Malt houseJ were all al hofns n that part cf England occupied by the p&nes The lmnense pf6dominance nuneri- caiiy of mSitstsr over maitsf, both as common noun and as a surname. is but one of many indications that ste.. was ln the hands of the women ln those early days. Later men crowded them out of the business In
 The prototheme Is the oid Norse malt. which is cognate in etymoiosy and identical In meaning with the old saxon malt the Old High German.
 sla aals ths aIdsis TnsD Iex sRa asfmas esrsa sls and malt. Dutch fiout. Danish and Swedish malt. Anglo-saxon, rnealt. Middle English matte. niauit and malt and the Scotch Engiish n&nt.
 The radical idea in Teutonic may be seen in the Angio-Saxon meltan. ito. melt dissolve, liquefy.s the Old Aish Fl, ,si.1gas ssslssa 3 fnais. "msitihs away,
 The eosnates farther atleld support this. Tfiese include the hatin fnoilis tf9r hioidvis, asoft. tendef. 6tc..s the old Siavonic n1iadu. young. tender, soft" Old Prussian maida. .yohng.', Z, yEat cymric blydd sof., gsna,tle tender" gg to soften. weaken, destroy and meido. melt, liquefy.s sanskrit mrdus, weak. soft, tender. mild. etc."
 The dentorotheme by 6 our most common scandinavian suffix in place. names and Is an infalllble. proof that the Dane was once ifi the iaid- 1t ap- pears in Danish aid Swedish as Dy. in Mi weeiAh as bo, in old Morse As baer Saxon as by bys. 1t Is derived from ofigi6aiiy dsh6ts8 Ia dwtiiihs. sksS "a fatmstsAd'' and later village or town.
 This same by appears as. a prehx in our "by-lawsv the Dahiel byl6v and Swedish bylag. a law Of ,a village. township or other local cohnfhunlty. made by local Adthofity Aud of l5s cal application. From q bArtieipial substantive bohde, contracted from boande, buande, We get the band in husbaid (Ahel6-sax6n has-bondaJ and the surname Bond. signifylne "one who occupies and tilis tho land. d husbandman."
 Its cognates arc many and various and Include the Lithuafiaf butas "a house." Oid sl&vohic byu to be; AL banian but, Ito dwell' and bur. man. Irish buith to be-" and both. ''a hut" .Cynrlc sod "A dWsiiliia place ;s English he add bdiia; Latin fait. mas been 1t. ebeeon1ss;'' afeek physics snatute." Diiyton, 'a plant" sanskrit come Avsstan and oid Persian bs- s vaiti, be. become" and bumis. earth"
 wiekIlKs.
 This territorial strnande comes to us from the Parish. Of Wyclifie. oa the Tnes, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
 Hence according to Leland. our sole authority on the point. the great re- former, drew his origin, Hence ais6 the ancient family made famous by the "Marnion" of Sir walter Scott.
 The name has many variants The Domesday t10SeJ has Witciive; Kirby's Guest (13z7l has Whitclive; the York shire Poll 1ax List 6k 1s5s haB wyelayf, Why ttlSHs ana Wytl6fEe; | ci6se Roll eI 1850 has Whiteclet
 The fekoffners name has been spelled | it svsFy imaginable way by ths chron- ieiefs and other early writers. Four l variants are atiIi frequent. One of these 10 wyeiiKe. tEe present ofthogra- l phy cf the parish name another ls Wy elf. favored by the wycllf Society, among utuSfaI 8 tnlfQ IS WaClikB most | strongly supported by the German schoiaFH; and the fourth IS the more recent favoFlte. sffckliffs The last | was pfoBAbly made inors popular by ! ahe old play 6f the name. 'ifisquaffi yita'' fweak-iife or worthless iife)s found in Gascoigfse.
 As well indicated Dy some aR me va- fiants already cited, the name signlfiAs nthe white cliff. The cliff. a mass of dull, whitlsh gray color, IS still d conspicuous object In the local scenery. The prototheme is the Anglo-SaKon | hwa Middle English wit. wyt. whit, white etc, eognAte with the old Fri l sian hwit CD, Dutch wit (whence the name Dewitt, etc,), Old Morse hvitr, old High German hwits. German weiss. Csothlc hwsIta, ail meaning nwhlte" Other c6anates ars the Ldthuaniafi szvidus, as1ining, the old siavonlc svetu. 'Iisht bright" the Persian sipad and isped, nWhlte," the Avestan sphato, and sanskfit cvetas tpalatal sibilant ac'') whits and cvindAte "shine. be light, etesr
 The deuterotheme Is the Anglo-sa cllf Middle English, elf. clef. cisve, ciife, clyn(s). cliff (el, etc. Layamon,