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Rut  ‘soot.’  sot,  soot, and its   sôt are scarcely allied. ruoȥ probably represents*hruoȥ,*hrôta-, but whether it is to be connected with hrôt, ‘roof,’ is more than questionable; it is more probably allied to  hrôt, ‘dirt.’ No cognate terms are found in the non- languages.   ,, ‘rod, switch, wand, rod (about 15 feet),’ from ruote,  ruota, , ‘switch, rod, pole, rod (a measure)’; corresponding to  rôda, t., ‘cross,’   roede, ‘rod (also a measure),’  rôd,  ‘cross,’  rod, rood. *rôda,, ‘pole, stake,’ is wanting. A pre- râdhá- is not found elsewhere; but is rădius, ‘staff,’  allied?  ,, ‘to slide, glide, slip,’ from late rütschen, ‘to glide,’ with the variant rützen. Perhaps it belongs to the same root as, , which are based on  rütteln, rütten, ‘to shake.’    ,, ‘hall, large room, drawing-room,’ from and  sal,  and , ‘house, large room, hall, building generally containing only one room, especially used for assemblies’;  sęli, , ‘building consisting of only one large room.’ In  and  the term sęlihûs, ‘house with a large room,’ is also used;  sęle, salor, sœl, ‘hall, palace,’  salr,  ( saloz, saliz, , may be assumed). preserves only the allied saljan, ‘to find shelter, remain,’ and saliþwôs,  ‘lodging, guest-chamber’;  with the latter  sęlida,, ‘dwelling,’  sęlde. To these selitva,, ‘dwelling,’ and selo, , ‘courtyard, village,’ and also  sŏlum, ‘soil, ground.’ From the  cognates are derived the  class,  sala,  salle, ‘hall, room.’   ,, ‘sowing, seed, crop,’ from the  and  sât, ; corresponding to  sâd, ,  zaad,  sœ̂d,  and ,  seed,  sœ̂ðe, and sáð, , ‘seed,’  only in mana-sêþs (þ  to d), , ‘mankind, world.’  sê-di and sê-da- are abstract forms from the  root sê, ‘to sow,’ contained in  and.   ,, ‘sabre,’ from the late  and early   and , , which, like the   and  sabre and  sciabla, seems to be derived from the East; the ultimate source is still uncertain. The words, such as  sablja,  szabla,  sablja, us well as Hun. száblya, appear to have been borrowed.   , see.   ,, ‘thing, matter, affair, business, case,’ from sache,   sahha, , ‘quarrel, cause of dispute, lawsuit, opportunity, affair, cause, reason'; corresponding to the   sǫk, , and  saka, ;   zaak, ‘thing,’  sacu, ‘strife, feud,’  sake,  sakjô, , ‘strife, dispute.’ The cognates are connected with  sakan, ‘to strive, dispute,’  sacan,  sakan,  sahhan, ‘to blame, scold; sue (at law).’ The root sak, ‘to contend, sue (at law),’ is peculiar to. The evolution in meaning is worthy of special notice. The general sense ‘case' is a later development of ‘lawsuit, dispute,’ which has been preserved in, ‘attorney, advocate’ (see further ). Old legal parlance developed the former from the latter. <section end="Sache" /> ,, ‘soft, gentle, slow, gradual,’ only (unknown to ), from  sacht,   zacht;  and  cht for  ft. It corresponds to, the nasal of which has disappeared even in  sâfto, , ‘softly, gently.’ <section begin="Sack" /> ,, ‘sack, bag, pocket,’ from the  sac ( sackes),  sac ( sacches), ; corresponding to the   sakkus, ,  sekkr, ,  sœcc, ,  sack, and  zak. A loanword from saccus ( sacco,  and  sac), which came through the medium of  σάκκος, from the  and  sak. The word seems to have been introduced into, through commercial intercourse with Roman merchants, at a very early period (in Cæsar's time?), probably contemporaneously with , , and. <section end="Sack" /> ,, ‘zounds!’ late , remodelled from sacré nom de Dieu; also corrupted into.