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 , a frequent suffix in the formation of the names of brooks and rivers (or rather the places named after them); on the whole,  is more,  more , and  ; from  aha, ‘running water,’  ahwa, ‘river' (for details see ), whence also the names of the rivers  ,  (Hesse).   ,, ‘eel,’ from the   âl, , a term common to the Teutonic dialects;   âll,  œ̂l,  eel,  aal (allied perhaps to  i.). No original affinity to the  anguilla,  ἔγχελυς, is possible, for the sounds of the  words differ too much from it; even from *anglu-,  âl or  œ̂l could not be derived. Besides, there is no hereditary stock of names of fishes possessed in common by and  and  (see ). —   ,, ‘eel-pout' (also called , see ), an eel-like fish, originally called merely; in  rū̆ppe,  rûppa; as the  rutte (the equivalent and parallel form) indicates, the base of the word is probably supplied by the  rubêta, from which, through the  custom of displacing the accent in borrowed words (see ), we get rúbeta, and then, by the assimilation of the consonants through syncope of the intermediate e, the forms mentioned; names of fishes borrowed in  from  rarely occur. See.   ,, from the  ar,  aro, , ‘eagle’; a   word, which has also cognates outside the  group. ara, are,, ‘eagle'; further  ǫrn, ,  arn (to which is allied  ,  Aranolt,  sense ‘eagle-guardian'),  earn, ‘eagle,’  arend, ‘eagle'; pri - marily cognate with  orĭlŭ,  erélis, ‘eagle,’  ὄρνις, ‘bird,’  and  er. eryr, ‘eagle.’ See.   ,, from the ,  and  âs, , ‘carcass, carrion';  the   œ̂s; allied to.  ,, also a in older  (hence the modern ,  ‘from the hands,’ as well as Swiss patronymics like , ), ‘off, away from,’ from  abe, ab, , ‘down from, away from, off,’ , ‘down,’  aba, , ‘away from, down from here,’ , ‘down.’ Corresponding to  af (ab), , ‘down from there, from' (also ),  af, ave,  af,  to  of,  of;  cognate with  ἀπό,  ápa, ‘away from.’ Of course phrases like , do not contain the  , but are due to incorrect Latinity; since the 17th century commercial language has adopted Latin expressions.  ,, ‘evening,’ from the  âbent (âbunt);  âband, ; corresponding to  âƀand,  avond,  œ̂fen, ‘evening,’ whence  eve; also the   œ̂fning,  evening ( morning);  aptann; similarly  andanahti,  sense ‘forenight,’ and sagqs,  ‘setting.’ The SEurop. term corresponding to ἕσπερος,  vesper, is non- (  and ). A verb, ‘to grow dusk,’ adduced from the Swiss dialects to explain , can be none other than a later derivative of. Moreover, (base êp-) can scarcely be connected with  (base apo), as if  were the waning period of the day. According to old notions, the evening was regarded rather as the beginning of the following day. See and.   ,, ‘adventure,’ from 