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Ode  odo, earlier ëddo,  ode, od. This abnormal r is, according to some, a suffix; according to others it is simply an suffix due to the influence of  wëdar,  wëder, ‘neither.’  ëddo, ëdo, correspond further to  aíþþau, ‘or,’ which is a compound of  iþ, ‘and’ ( et), and þau, ‘or.’  or has no connection with this word, since it originated in  âhwœþer;  aíþþau is  oþþe and ëþþa, ‘or,’ which became obsolete ar an early period.  ,, ‘agrimony,’ a corruption of the  agrimonia, which appears under various forms in  odermenie, adermonie.   ,, ‘from the  oven,  ovan, , ‘oven’; so too with the same meaning  and  oven,  ofen,  oven,  ofn, ogn ( ugn),  aúhns; the word is common to , hence the thing signified must also be. The variation of guttural and labial is seen also in the forms cognate with these,  ukhâ, ‘pot,’ and  ἱπνός, ‘oven’ (for uknos, which is indicated by  aúhns). The sense, ‘pot,’ seems also to follow from  ofnet, ‘little vessel.’  ,, from the  offen,  offan, , ‘open’; it has the same meaning in all the  languages except. , where *upans is wanting. openn, and  open,  open,  opan; the  seems similar in form to a, but the  verb cannot be adduced. It is also doubtful whether, upp,  iup, is allied, so that  would mean  ‘drawn up.’ ,, from the  oft, ofte,  ofto, , ‘often, frequently’; corresponding. to ufta,  opt,  oft,  oft (extended form often),  oft, ofto, ‘often.’ These  forms seem to be petrified cases of an obsolete  or  ; they have also been connected with the  of the  root uc, ‘to be fond of doing.’  ', ',, from the  ôheim, œheim (also with final n instead of m),  ôheim, , ‘uncle’; corresponding to  oom,  eám, ‘uncle’ (contracted from *eáhâm),  œ̂m, ‘uncle,’ also early  eme (whence, Eames as a  name). By inference from êm, ‘mother's brother,’ and  avunculus, the  meaning of  is  ‘uncle on the mother's side’ (in contrast to,  patruus). *áuháims, corresponding to the simply West cognates, is wanting. The etymology of the word is difficult to determine. The first syllable is generally regarded as cognate with avun-culus, ‘uncle,’ which is the  of avus, ‘grandfather’ (so too  avynas and  ujĭ, from *aujos, ‘uncle’); to  avus (to which  aue, ‘grandson,’ is allied),  awô,, ‘grandmother,’  áe, ‘great-grandfather,’ corresponds. With reference to the second syllable a haima-, ‘honour,’ is assumed; therefore  means  ‘enjoying the honours of a grandfather.’ A more probable assumption is ‘possessing the grandfather's house,’ ‘grandfather's heir’ (hence  avunculus,  ‘little grandfather’). Others join the h to the first syllable and regard it as the representative of the c in avuncu-lus, and divide the  word thus, *auh-aims, so that aima is a  suffix for aina. It is to be observed that after the remarks under and,  óheim may also mean ‘nephew, sister's son.’   , and, ‘awm’ (liquid measure, about 40 galls.), from  âme, ôme (â before nasals is changed into ô,  , , , and ), , , and , ‘awm, measure’; corresponding to  aam,  awm,  áma. They are based on ama, ‘vessel, wine measure’ ( ἄχη, ‘water-pail,’  ama, ‘water bucket’). See.   ,, ‘aftermath,’ from the  âmât,  âmâd, ; also in the same sense with a different prefix  uëmet,  uomât, , ‘second mowing of the grass’; for  mâd see under. The syllables â and uo are nominal prefixes;  uo also signifies ‘after’ in the compounds uo-quëmo, ‘descendant,’ uo-chumft, ‘succession’; â-, which is usually a negative prefix (see ), means ‘remaining,’ in  â-leiba,  âleibe, ‘relics.’  ,, from the  ân, âne, OH. âno,, ‘without’; corresponding to âno,  aen,  án, earlier ón (from *ánu), ‘without’; in , with a different gradation, inu. Undoubtedly the negative and  ni, ‘not’ (see ), are also allied to, as well as  ἄνευ, ‘without.’ —   in, ‘notwithstanding,’ , ‘not long