Note 52 — Chapter V · THE NATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD.
Reading edition
As the Sanskrit gôpa, ‘a prince,’ the Slavonic hospodar (from gôspada) contains the word gô, our ‘cow,’ and means the protector of the cattle; from the same root, Sanskrit gavya, ‘pasturage,’ Saxon gê, ‘county,’ Greek gaia, or gê, ‘earth.’