English Past and Present

Chapter 18

{284} [Compare Latin _amita_, yielding old French _ante_, our "aunt".]

{285} "The Carthaginians shall restore and deliver back all the _renegates_ [perfugas] and fugitives that have fled to their side from us".--p. 751.

{286} [See further in _The Folk and their Word-Lore_, p. 80.]

{287} Halbertsma quoted by Bosworth, _Origin of the English and Germanic Languages_, p. 39.