The Philosophy of Words. a Popular Introduction to the Science of Language
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(Compare aetas from aevitas ; momentum from movimentum ; fomentiim from fovimentum^ Civitatem is from civis, a citizen : in civis, we have that root ki, Sanskrit gi, to rest, to live, which we have ah^eady met in koifnao (whence, comedy, ceme- tery and quiet'). Citizen is from city ; Middle English citisien, citizein, citesain. The z (sometimes turned into s) is a corrupt rendering of the Middle English symbol 3, which properly means j;/, when occur- ring before a vowel. The same mistake occurs... in the Scotch names Menzies, Dalziel, miswrit- ten for Menyies, Dalyiel, as proved by the fre- quent pronunciation of them according to the 130 THE PHILOSOPHY OF WORDS. old spelling. Hence citizen stands for Middle English citiyn, citiyen, Old French citeain (compare modern French citoyen) formed from cit^, or city, by help of the suffix ain, Latin anus. From civis, a citizen, we have civil " belong- ing to the city " " polite," " cultivated" ; and from "civil," to "civilize " and " civilization ".
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