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Sch smak (pre- smā̆g), with which  smagùs, ‘agreeable,’  ‘pliant,’ has wrongly been connected as cognate terms.  ,, ‘fat, grease, smear,’ from the  smër ( smërwes),  smëro ( smërwes), ;. From the root smër, contained in these words, are derived *smaír-þr,, ‘fat, fatness,’  smeer, ‘fat, grease, tallow,’  smeoro,  smear,  smjǫr, ‘butter’; also, with a different meaning,  smarna, ‘dirt, excrement’ ( its relation to  and ), and, in a figurative sense,  and  bismer, ‘contumely.’ In the non- languages the word has been compared, probably without any justification, with  μὕρω, ‘to trickle,’ μῦρον, ‘salve.’   ,, ‘to caress, coax, flatter,’ from smeicheln, smeichen, ‘to flatter, praise, extol’;  *smeihhen is wanting;   smeken,  smeeken, ‘to implore’ (conversely,  vleijen signifies ‘to flatter’). These cognates, which have no corresponding terms in other languages, probably belong, like the words adduced under, to a and Aryan root smī̆-w, ‘to be insinuating, friendly,’ to which  smieren, smielen, ‘to smile’ (  from the root spîw, ‘to spit’), is allied. In that case to smile,  smêra-s, ‘smiling,’  root smi, ‘to laugh,’  smët, ‘to laugh,’ and  směją, smijati sę, ‘to laugh,’ are probably allied. If from its relation to  and  glad it is assumed that the  meaning of the root smī̆-w is ‘to be smooth,’ the root smī̆ (see ), ‘to work artistically’ ( ‘to do polished work’), may be regarded as cognate with the former; similarly  gi-slihten signifies ‘to smooth over, polish,’ and ‘to flatter.’  ,, ‘to smite, fling, kick (of horses),’ from smîȥen, ‘to rub, strike’; the latter meanings are the earlier, as is shown by  smeitan (only in gasmeitan and bi-smeitan), ‘to spread over, besmear’;   smîtan,  to smite. The meaning of, compared with that of  and , is due to  and  influence;   smijten, ‘to sling, throw.’ Yet it is to be observed that the  and   are compounded usually with bi, or rather be (as in  and ), hence the  root smī̆t probably signifies ‘to throw at.’  The corresponding   , ‘cacare’ ( smeizen, ‘cacare’), is a factitive of smîȥen. See.  ,, ‘to melt, dissolve,’ from the  smëlzen,  smëlzan; also as factitive  ,  and  smęlzen, ‘to smelt, liquefy’;   to smelt. The pre- root smeld, contained in these words and in the allied term, is cognate with the root meld (see ), and μέλδω, ‘to melt.’ From the  cognates the  terms,  smalto and  émail, ‘enamel,’ are usually derived.  ,, ‘emery,’ early only, from the   smeriglio.   ',, ', ‘merlin,’ from smirl, , smirlîn, ‘mountain falcon,’  smirl, ,  smyrell; loan-words from Ron.;   smerlo, smeriglione,  émerillon, ‘stone-falcon’;  merlin comes from. The name of the bird is usually derived from  merula, ‘blackbird’; “it is said that the  word is applied to a bird similar to the blackbird.”   ,, ‘loach,’ from smërl, smërle, , ‘loach, groundling’;  also smërlinc, , and smërlîn, ; of obscure origin.   ,, ‘pain,’ from the  smërz, ,  smërzo, , smërza, ; allied to  smërzan, ,  smërzen, ‘to smart, pain,’  smeortan, ‘to pain, smart,’  smart,  and   smerte,  smart, , make it probable that the cognates are related to  mordêre, ‘to bite,’  σμερδνός, σμερδαλεός, ‘horrible'; the Aryan root smerd,  smert, signifies perhaps ‘to stick, bite.’.   , see.  <section begin="Schmetterling" /> ,, ‘butterfly,’ only; in the earlier periods a term closely connected with    is used. In most of the  this literary term is also wanting; in  müllermaler (so too in the Fulda ) or sommervogel,  baufalter or weifalter. In other occur,  ( also molkentövener, smantlecker),   or  ( butorfleóge,  butterfly), which may perhaps explain. The latter term is probably derived from, ‘cream,’ which, like , is native to the eastern part of Middle<section end="Schmetterling" />