lls my attention to the fact that, when the hippopotamus
is almost completely submerged, the pointed ears, prominent eyes, and
large nostrils are grotesquely suggestive of a horse's head. This I have
recently verified at the Zoo.

[29] For the rather illogical formation, cf. _dogged_ from _dog_.

[30] Connection has even been suggested between _haggis_ and Fr.
_agasse_, "a pie, piannet, or _magatapie_" (Cotgrave). _Haggis_, now
regarded as Scottish, was once a common word in English. Palsgrave has
_haggas_, a podyng, "caliette (caillette) de mouton," _i.e._, sheep's
stomach.

[31] For _eyas_ see p. 114.

[32] To the same period belongs the colour _magenta_, from the victory
of the French over the Austrians at Magenta in 1859.

[33] For _lockram_, see p. 48.

[34] _Jehannette_, "_Jug_, or Jinny" (Cotgrave). For strange perversions
of baptismal names see Chap. XII. It is possible that the rather
uncommon family name _Juggins_ is of the same origin.

[35] "Marsil has a book brought forward: the law of Mahomet and
Termagant was in it."

CHAPTER IV

WORDS AND PLACES

A very large number of wares are named from the places from which they
come. This is especially common in the case of woven fabrics, and the
origin is often obvious, e.g., _arras_, _cashmere_ (by folk-etymology,
_kerseymere_), _damask_, _holland_. The following are perhaps not all so
evident--_frieze_ from _Friesland_[36]; _fustian_, Old Fr. _fustaine_
(_futaine_), from _Fustat_, a suburb of Cairo; _muslin_, Fr.
_mousseline_, from _Mosul_ in Kurdistan; _shalloon_ from
_Chalons_-sur-Marne; _lawn_ from _Laon_; _jean_, formerly _jane_, from
_Genoa_ (French _Genes_[37]); _cambric_ from _Kamerijk_, the Dutch name
of Cambrai (_cf._ the obsolete _dornick_, from the Dutch name of
_Tournay_); _tartan_ from the _Tartars_ (properly _Tatars_), used
vaguely for Orientals; _sarcenet_ from the Saracens; _sendal_,
ultimately from _India_ (_cf._ Greco-Lat. _sindon_, Indian cloth);
_tabby_, Old Fr. _atabis_, from the name of a suburb of Bagdad, formerly
used of a kind of silk, but now of a cat marked something like the
material in question.

Brittany used to be famous for hempen fabrics, and the villages of
_Locrenan_ and _Daoulas_ gave their names to _lockram_ (see quotation
from _Coriolanus_, p. 42) and _dowlas_--

_Hostess._ You owe me money, Sir John; and now you pick a quarrel to
beguile me of it: I bought you a dozen of shirts to your back.