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BARK (1), BARQUE,
a short of ship. (F.,—Gk.) These are mere varieties of
the same word as the above. Hackluyt has barke, Voyages, vol.
ii. p. 227; which is clearly borrowed from F. barque. Cotgrave has
'Barque, a barke, little ship, great boat.'—Low Lat. barca, a sort
of ship. ¶ Brachet points out that the F.
barque, though derived
from Lat. barca (a little boat, in Isidore of Seville), was not derived
immediately, but through the Span. or Ital. barca. For further
details, see Barge. [†] BARK
(2), the rind of a
tree. (Scand.) M.E. barke, P. Plowman, B. xi. 251; bark,
Legends of Holy Rood, p. 68.—Swed. bark, rind. + Dan. bark.
+ Icel. börkr (from the stem bark-). ¶
It is tempting to connect these with Icel. bjarga, to save, protect; Goth.
bairgan, to hide, preserve; but the connection is not quite clear. BARK
(3), to yelp as a
dog. (E.) M.E. berke, Will. of Palerne, ed. Skeat, l.
35.—A.S. beorcan, Grein, i. 106; borcian, i. 132. + Icel. berkja,
to bark, to bluster. β. By the metathesis of r (common in English,
see Bride), the word is easily seen to be a variant of
brecan, to break, to
crack, to snap, used of a sudden noise; cf. the cognate Lat. fragor, a
crash. γ. That this is no fancy is sufficiently shewn by the use of
A.S. brecan in the sense of 'to roar,' Grein, i. 137; cf. Icel. braka, to creak
as timber does. Hence we also find M.E. brake used in the sense 'to
vomit;' as in 'Brakyn, or castyn, or spewe, Vomo, evomo;' Prompt. Parv. p.
47. See Break. Fick suggests a connection with Skt.
barh,
to roar as an elephant (i. 151), which is, after all, less likely. [†] ADDENDA BARK
(1), not (F.,—Gk.),
but (F.,—Low
Lat.,—Gk.);
or perhaps (F.,—Low
L.,—Gk.,—Egyptian).
There is certainly a Coptic word bari, a boat; for which see Peyron's
Lexicon. The ultimate Egyptian origin of barge, bark (1), and
barque, is, consequently, almost certain. BARK
(3). Cf. also Swed. bräka, Dan. bræge, Icel.
brækta, to
bleat (said of sheep).
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