Note 291 — Chapter V · THE SECOND CHALCITIC AGE OF ALLOYS[242]—BRONZE, BRASS, ETC.: THE AXE AND THE SWORD.

The Germans, who delight in German derivatives for European words, would find leiton, &c., not in luteum, but in löthen = to unite. There is little doubt, however, that the first English manufactory of calamine brass at Esher, in Surrey, was set up in the seventeenth century by Demetrius, a German. In Grimm’s Dictionary, as noticed by Demmin (chap. i), bronze is erroneously called messing (brass).