Grimm has provided one of the earlier and more commonly accepted etymologies for "kobold", tracing the word's origin through the Latin "cobalus" to the Greek "koba'los", meaning "rogue". The change to the word-final "-olt" is a feature of the German language used for monsters and supernatural beings. Variants of "kobold" appear as early as the 13th century. The words "goblin" and "gobelin", rendered in Medieval Latin as "gobelinus", may in fact derive from the word "kobold" or from "kofewalt". Related terms occur in Dutch, such as "kabout", "kabot", and "kaboutermanneken". Citing this evidence, British antiquarian Charles Hardwick has argued that the house kobold and similar creatures, such as the Scottish bogie, French goblin, and English Puck, all descend from the Greek "kobaloi", creatures "whose sole delite consists in perplexing the human race, and evoking those harmless terrors that constantly hover round the minds of the timid." In keeping with Grimm's definition, the "kobaloi" were spirits invoked by rogues. Similarly, British writer Archibald Maclaren has suggested that kobold beliefs descend from the ancient Roman custom of worshipping "lares", household gods, and "penates", gods of the house and its supplies.