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Ahn , ‘grandfather.’ Further  ,  ane,  ana, , ‘grandmother.’ To these are allied  ,  urane, urene,  *urano, , great-grandfather'; in  alt-ano, altar-ano (for the force of  in  see ). The class is peculiar to, being foreign to the remaining dialects;  also  — really a  form — which belongs to it. There is no doubt that ănus, ‘old woman,’ is a  cognate. Perhaps the masculine name  Anelo ( Onela,  Ále) is allied to it.  ,, ‘to punish,’ from anden,  antôn, anadôn, ‘to punish, censure,’ allied to  anto, anado, m , ‘insult, embittered feeling, anger.’ It corresponds to  ando, ‘exasperation, anger,’  anda, oneþa, ‘zeal, vexation, hatred,’ whence andian, ‘to be angry’; moreover,  preserves in uz-anan, ‘to die,’ the root an, ‘to breathe, respire, snort,’ which appears in these words. ande,, ‘breath, spirit,’ ǫnd, , ‘breath, soul'; and also êðian, ‘to breathe' (implying  *anþjôn),  oruþ, ‘breath' ( *uzanþ), orþian, ‘to breathe,’  ørendi, ‘breathlessness.’ The root an, preserved in all the cognates, is , and means ‘to breathe’;   animus, anima,  ἄνεμος, connected with the Aryan root an, ‘to breathe, respire.' — ,, ‘to forebode’; see.  ,, ‘boon’ (of flax or hemp), from âne, older agene, , ‘chaff';  agana, , ‘chaff;’ also  *agon, œgne,  awene,  awns,  ahana,  ǫgn, ‘chaff.’ In these cognates two really different roots seem to have been blended in various ways; the meaning ‘chaff' would be applicable to the one, just as the exact  corresponding ἄχνη, ‘chaff, foam’ (of the sea), likewise points to Aryan aghnâ ( besides  ἄχυρον, ‘chaff’). The other is perhaps ‘prickle, awn,’ and belongs to the root ah (Aryan ak); see.  ,, ‘to forebode, suspect,’ from anen, ‘to foresee, forebode,’ foreign to the older period and to the rest of the  dialects; it has been connected with the  root an, ‘to breathe, respire,’ so that it may be a  cognate of , under the influence of which it also appears in  as. It is better, however, to regard it as a derivative of the  an; allied,  ‘to befall, seize, attack' (properly said of ghosts or visions).  ,, from the  ánelîch,  ánagilîh (*ánalîh), , ‘similar.’ It corresponds to  ánaleikô, , ‘similarly’; from the    ana (see ) and the suffix ; see   , . ‘maple,’ from the  and  âhorn,, the â of which is inferred from the Swiss ;   ahorn. It is allied to  ăcer,, ‘maple' ( ἄκαστος) and  ἀκαταλίς ‘juniper berry.’ The  word, at all events, cannot be regarded as borrowed from. For another old name see under.   ,, ‘ear’ (of corn), from the of  eher,  ehir, ahir, , ‘ear’ (of corn); corresponds to  aar,  eár (from *eahor),  ear. As the derivative r stands for an older s, ahs,  ( ahsis) and  ax (also  and ), ‘ear' (of corn), are identical with it; so, too,  ah, ‘ear’ (of corn). besides ahii, , ‘prickle, spike’ (of corn), (with regard to the ch,   , ‘ear of corn,’  and Northumb. œhher),  egle, ‘spikes' (of corn),  ails, eils ‘beard of wheat or barley,’  (in Brockes) , ‘spike’ (of corn),  *agiþ? also. The root ah, which consequently, specially means ‘spike, ear' (of corn), agrees with  acus ( aceris),, ‘corn-prickle.’ It may be said generally that a root ah, with the primary meaning ‘pointed,’ is very widely developed in the Aryan group;   ἄκανος, ‘a kind of thistle,’ ἄκαινα, ‘goad,’ ἄκων, ‘javelin,’ ἄκρος, ‘at the point,’  acus, aculeus, acies (see ).   ,, ‘vestibule’ , from ęrn, , ‘floor, threshing-floor,’ also ‘ground, bottom,’  ęrin,  ( *arins), to which  arenn, , ‘hearth,’ corresponds. Further, ëro,  jǫrve, ‘earth,’ as well as  area, ‘courtyard, threshing-floor,’  arvum, ‘plain, cornfield,’ and  ἔραζε, ‘to the ground,’ may be cognate.  , see.  , see.   ,, ‘alabaster,’ from alabaster ( alabastraun), from - alabastrum. <section end="Alabaster" /> <section begin="Alant" />  (1.),, ‘chub’ (a fish), from the  alant,  alant, alunt, , corresponds to  alund; allied to<section end="Alant" />