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An and the genuinely aspect of such a word cannot indeed be denied, even if the origin of -bahts cannot now be determined (and- is a verbal particle,  ). The emphatic testimony of Festus, however, is against the origin of the - ambactus; ambactus apud Ennium lingua gallica servus appellatur. This coincides with the fact that the word can be fully explained from ; ambactus contains the prefix amb- ( amb-) ‘about’; and ag is an oft-recurring verbal root (see ) in, meaning ‘to go’; hence ambactus, ‘messenger’ ( ‘one sent hither and thither’), from which comes  ambactia, ambactiata, ‘errand’ ( ambasciata,  ambassade, ‘embassy’). This explanation of the - cognates makes it possible that the class was borrowed from  and transformed ( andbahts for ambahts); in any case, it was borrowed in prehistoric times.  ,, , ‘on, by, along,’ from ane,  ana, , , ‘on, in, upon’; it corresponds to  ana, , , ‘on, upon, in,’ ,  on, , ,  aan,  an. allied to ἀνά, ‘upon, on,’ Zend ana ‘upon,’  an- in anhélare, ‘to respire,’  vŭ (for *on). ,, ‘to fix or appoint (a time),’ with a dialectic transmutation of â into au , or the word was based by popular etymology on , from râmen (rœmen), ‘to make proposals, aim, strive’ (berâmen, ‘to fix’),  râmên,  râmôn, ‘to aim, strive,’  beramen, ‘to fix’; allied to  râm ‘goal’ (root rê, as in ?). Further aramir, ‘to define legally’?.  ,, ‘devotion,’ from andâht,  ánadâht, ‘attention, devotion’;  dûht, , ‘thought,’ is a verbal abstract from  and.   ,, ‘drain,’ older âdûche, transformed from  aquaeductus. See.  ,, ‘other, different, second,’ from ander,  andar, ‘the other’; it corresponds to  anþar, ‘the other,’  annarr,  ôðer,  other,  ander,  âðar, ôðar. The meanings ‘the second, one of two, the other,’ are due to a comparative form (Aryan ánteros, ‘one of two,’ alter). the corresponding ántara-, ‘different from,’  Osset. ändär, ‘otherwise than, with the exception of,’ àntras, ‘the other.’ The root an- is proved by  and Zend an-ya-, ‘another.’ With  andar ‘other,’ is also connected  antarôn, ‘to imitate.’  , see.   ,, from the  and  andorn, ‘horehound, the plant Marrubium’; the suffix -orn as in ? The root has not yet been explained.  , see.  , and, from the   angel, , , ‘sting, fish-hook, hinge of a door,’  angul,. ‘sting, point, fish-hook’; of  ango, ‘sting, door hinge,’  ange, ‘fish-hook, door hinge.’   ongel,  angle,  onga, ‘sting,’  ǫngull ‘fish-hook,’ allied to ange, ‘sting, point’ ( angel, ‘bee sting,’ angelmuck, ‘stinging fly’). The supposition that the and widely diffused cognates are borrowed from  angulus, ‘angle, corner,’ is untenable;  ąglŭ,  angle,  angul, ‘angle, corner,’ are, however,  allied to it; so too,. The root idea of the cognates is ‘pointed.’ An Aryan root onk, ‘to be pointed,’ also lies at the base of  uncus,  ὄγκος, ὄγκινος, ‘barb,’ ἄγκιστρον, ‘fish-hook,’  aṅka, ‘hook,’ Osset. ängur, ‘hook, hinge,’ écad, hook.’  ,, ‘agreeable, pleasant,’ from genœme, late  ginâmi, , ‘acceptable, agreeable’ (without the prefix an-), allied to. andanêms ‘agreeable,’ allied to and-niman, ‘to accept.’  ,, ‘paddock, grass plot,’ from anger,  angar, , ‘pasture land, grass plot, arable land’; allied to  eng, enge, ‘meadow, pasture ground.’ The cognates can scarcely be derived from , ‘narrow’ ( root ang). Trustworthy correspondences are wanting.   ,, ‘face, presence,’ from angesiht, , ‘aspect, view,’  also ‘face’; allied to ,. <section end="Angesicht" /> <section begin="Angst" /> ,, from the  angest,  angust, , ‘anxiety, apprehension’; this abstract form is wanting in the other  dialects, the suffix st being also very rarely found;. But it must not be assumed therefore that the angust is borrowed from  angustiae, ‘narrowness, meanness.’ It is<section end="Angst" />