Note 127 — Chapter XII
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The Crusader, Baldwin, is known to the Arabs as Barduil. Portugal they make Portgun. Labunitus of Homer, is written Nabunitus by Berosius. The exchange of b and m is so common, as almost to be a rule; and thence, perhaps, that strange word biffin for baked apples, resembling in shape the muffin.
Mr. Layard mentions, that the Yezidis, who abhor all imprecations, will not use the word naal, “horse-shoe,” because it approaches to laan a “curse.”—Nineveh, vol. i. p. 296.