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Ohr since,’ represents under the influence of  on, ‘un-.’ —    in is due to the attempt to assign a more intelligible meaning to, which originated in  and  â-maht; the prefix ô from the old â had become obscure in the compound. With regard to â, ‘un-,’  â-teili, ‘having no share in,’  â-sętze, ‘unoccupied,’  œ̂-men, ‘devoid of men.’ —   ,, ‘casual, accidental,’ , ‘about, not far from,’ from ân gevœre, mostly ân gevœrde, ‘without evil intention, without deceit.’   ,, from the  ôre, ôr, ,  ôra, , ‘ear’; corresponding terms are found in all the  languages;  ôra,  oor,  eáre, ,  ear,  eyra (with mutation on account of r,  to  and  z),  ausô, , ‘ear.’ Like many other terms for parts of the body ( , , , , &c.), this word occurs also in other Aryan languages,  auris for *ausis (to which aus-cultare is akin, see ),  οὖς (from *οῦσος),  ὦτός from (οὐσατός, allied to an n- stem like the  cognates),  ucho ( ušese), , ‘ear,’ from ausos (with the dual uši),  ausis. the following word.   ,, ‘eye’ (of a needle), from œre, œr, , ‘ear-like opening, eye (of a needle), hole in a handle, handle,’ so too late  ôri, ; a derivative of  ôra, ‘ear’;  further. Moreover, οὖς,  ear, and  oor also signify ‘handle.’   ,, ‘box on the ear,’ first occurs in early , similar to oorvijg; usually regarded as a facetious corruption of  oorveeg, ‘box on the ear,’ in which veeg (cognate with  ) signifies ‘stroke, cut.’ It may, like , ,  ( a kind of pastry), be a euphemistic expression.   ,, from the  öle, öl,  (with the variants ole, ol, and olei),  olei, oli, , ‘oil’; corresponding to  olig;  olie,  ele, , ‘oil.’  oleum, ‘oil,’ passed into  before the 8th. . adopted the term probably even half a century earlier from the, the only assumption that can explain the remarkable  form alêw. The approximate source of oil,  oile, is  oil, which with its  cognates. ( huile) are also based on oleum.   ,, ‘oleander, rose-bay,’ first occurs in early , from the   oléandre, or rather  oleandro. <section end="Oleander" /> <section begin="Olive" /> ,, ‘olive,’ from olîve,  and , from  oliva. <section end="Olive" /> <section begin="Onkel" /> ,, ‘uncle,’ only, from  oncle. <section end="Onkel" /> ,, from the  opfern,  opfarôn, ‘to sacrifice’; so too  offrón,  offeren,  offrian, ‘to sacrifice,’ whence  to offer, under the influence of  offrir. Introduced by the Church from offerre. With regard to the change of accent in, , from praedicare, in which the verbal particle likewise assumed the accent. — <section begin="Opfer" /> ,, ‘offering, sacrifice,’ from opfer,  opfar, , is not based on a  word, but coined from the   ; see also. Moreover, the Teutons had their own special word for ‘to sacrifice’; and  blôtan,  blóta,  bluoȥan. <section end="Opfer" /> <section begin="Orden" /> ,, ‘order, class, badge,’ from orden, , ‘rule, regulation, series, management, decree, rank, spiritual order’; borrowed from  ordin-em ( of ordo), even in the  period;   ordina, , whence ordinhaft. The oblique case of the word determined the form of the  term; so too in, , &c. — <section end="Orden" /> , ‘to order, regulate,’ even in ordenen,  ordinôn, formed from  ordinare. <section begin="Orgel" /> ,, ‘organ’ ( instrument), from organâ, orgene,  organâ, , of which a rare variant in l occurs,  orgela,  orgel, , ‘organ.’  organa is derived from  organum ( organo,  orgue,  organ), or rather its  organa, ‘organ.’ Properly, however, “organa dicuntur omnia instrumenta musicorum; non solum illud organum dicitur quod grande est et inflatur follibus, &c.” (Augustine). Organs were known to the Teutons as early as the latter half of the 8th,  in the reign of Charlemagne, for Charlemagne himself received a magnificent organ, which was described by a monk of St. Gall, as a present from the Byzantine emperor Michael. <section end="Orgel" /> <section begin="Orkan" /> ,, only, from the   orkaan,  hurricane;   ouragan,  uracano, ‘hurricane’; “it is a modern word introduced from America, said to be of Caribbean origin.”

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