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Sch , ‘insult, abuse, ignominy’ (to which smacco, ‘affront,’ is allied?). An abstract from smœhe,, ‘little, trifling, contemptible’;   smâhi, , ‘little, trifling, base,,’ smâhi, , ‘trifle, baseness’; also  smár, ‘little,’ and, with a different development of meaning,  smeálîc, ‘fine, careful.’ A similar variety of meanings is seen in the history of  , for which we must assumne (as for  smâki) the  meaning of ‘little, pretty.’ If  μικρός, σμικρός, represents σμεκρός,  smâhi (as if corresponding to *σμήκιος) may be connected with it. The earlier sense still appears faintly in and ;   versmahten (ă or â?), ‘to pine away,’  gismahteôn, ‘to disappear.’ Allied to ,, ‘pining, languishing,’ from   smahtec, from   smaht, ‘pining away’; if these latter cognates contain ă, they may be connected with  smëcker, ‘slender, narrow, pining.’ See.   , see.   ,, ‘smack’ (vessel), only, formed from the   and  smak,  smack,  smakke (  semaque); its history and origin are obscure.   ,, ‘to abuse, revile, rail,’ from smœhen, ‘to treat contemptuously,’  smâhen, , ‘to make small, lessen,’ see. Allied to ,, ‘abusive,’  smœhelich,  smâlîch, , which are identical with the   smâhi,  smœhe, adduced under.  ,, ‘narrow, slender, scanty,’ from and  smal, , ‘small, trifling, slender, scanty, narrow’; corresponding to  smals, ‘small, trifling.’  smeœl, ‘small, trifling,’  small,  smal,  smal, ‘emall, trifling.’ The  sense is to be regarded as a specialisation of the older and wider meaning. The word is usually compared with malŭ, ‘small,’ as well as  μῆλα, ‘small cattle’ (for σμ-?),  míl, ‘animal,’  since  smale, ‘small cattle,’ has the same meaning. The older and wider meaning of the is still faintly seen in, ‘to put down with reproof’;   smeln, ‘to make narrower, lessen.’  ,, ‘smalt,’ only, formed from  smalto, or  smalt, ‘glass of a deep blue.’   ,, ‘fat, grease, suet,’ from and  smalz, , ‘melted fat for cooking, grease, butter’ (   smalzo, ‘butter’); allied to , ‘to melt,’ which, in the sense ‘to cook with fat,’ is derived from.   , (,, and ), ‘cream,’ from the  late  smant, borrowed in the 15th  from ;   smant. With smetana ( smetana, ‘cream’) is connected the  (,, and ) , ‘cream,’ to which  is probably related.   ,, ‘to spunge on,’ from late smorotzen, ‘to beg, be sordid, spunge on.’ On account of the narrow area and the late appearance of the word, its history and origin are obscure. <section begin="Schmarre" /> ,, ‘slash, scar,’ only; corresponding to  smarre; unknown to the  languages; only in  does a cognate smurre, , ‘cut, stroke,’ occur. Of obscure origin. <section end="Schmarre" /> ,, ‘to smack the lips in eating,’ from the  smatzen, which also means ‘to kiss with a smack.’ The  word comes from an older  variant smackezen, a derivative of  smacken, ‘to taste, savour.’ <section begin="Schmauch" /> ,, ‘thick smoke,’ from smouch, ‘smoke, vapour’ ( smêč). Allied to a root smū̆k (Pre- smū̆g), ‘to smoke’;   smeócan, smŏcian, and the   to smoke,  smoken, ‘to smoke,’ smook, ‘smoke’; also  smöken. Perhaps σμὕχω ( ε-σμύγ-ην), ‘to consume in a smouldering fire,’ is allied. <section end="Schmauch" /> <section begin="Schmaus" /> ,, ‘feast, banquet’; its history and origin are obscure. Yet smullen, ‘to eat or drink immoderately, carouse,’ smuisteren, ‘to feast,  and  smudderen, smodderen, ‘to feast,’ are probably cognate. The word is unknown to the period. <section end="Schmaus" /> ,, ‘to taste, savour, relish,’ from smęcken, smacken, ‘to try by tasting; savour, smell, scent; perceive’; the meaning ‘to smell’ is still partly retained by  and   smęcchen, only ‘to taste’ ( and ), smacchên, ‘to smack of.’   and  smac, , ‘taste,’  smaak,  smœc (cc), ‘taste,’ smeččan, ‘to taste,’  smack,  and. In and  there are no corresponding  from the  root