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Um  stem el, ol, the cognates of   are also connected.  , and  ‘about, around,’ from the   umbe (ümbe),  umbi, cannot be regarded as directly corresponding to  ἀμφί,  abhi, ‘about,’ for then the  form would be umb. unbi is rather a compound of this *umb, with the bī̆, ‘by’; so too  umbi,  ymbe (but ymb directly corresponds to  abhi). — ,, ‘in vain, to no purpose,’ from the  umbe sus. See.  , prefix, ‘not,’ from the  and  un-; a negative prefix common to  and Aryan;   un-,  on-,  and  un-,  ó-. Corresponding to ἀ-,  in-,  and Zend a-, an-. With this prefix is connected the common Aryan negation nē̆, ‘not’ (see ), as well as the  and its cognates.   ,, ‘iniquity, wrong,’ only; based on the cognates of , instead of the correct  , ,  unbilde, , ‘wrong, impropriety,’ which is properly an abstract from  (rare) unbil (usually unbillîch), , ‘incongruous, unjust.’ On account of the meaning there is probably no direct historic connection with. , and especially.  ,, ‘and,’ from the  unt, unde,  unta, unti (inti, enti); corresponding to  ęndi,  en,  and  and. útha, ‘also, further, and,’ points, like and  and, to Aryan nthá.  ',, ‘filth, dirt,’ from un-vlât, , , and , ‘dirtiness, untidiness’; to which is allied ',  ‘filthy, nasty,’ from  unvlœtic, ‘unclean, untidy.’  *flât, ‘beauty,’ is met with only in female proper names (Sigi-, Muot-, Hruoī̆-flât). The early history of *flât ( flêd,  flœ̂d in proper names) is obscure.   , see.  ',, ‘monstrous, atrocious,’ from ungehiure,  ungihiuri, ‘uncanny, frightful’; allied to ', , ‘monster,’ from  ungehiure, ‘savage, dragon, ghostly creature,’  ungihiurì, ‘monster.’ See.  , see.  ,, ‘blustering, impetuous,’ from ungestüeme,  un - gistuomi (unstuom), , ‘stormy, impetuous’; the unnegatived form of the  was extremely rare in  and. Based on a verbal root stam, as in stęmen (, from *stamjan), ‘to check, restrain,’ which appears also in. —   ,, ‘monster,’ early only; unknown to the older periods. Early history obscure.  <section begin="Ungeziefer" /> ,, ‘vermin,’ from the late  ungezī̆bere, unzī̆ver, ; properly ‘unclean beast not suited for sacrifice.’ It is based, in fact, on  ‘zëbar, ‘beast of offering,’ which is connected with the   tîfer. The terms borrowed in, toivre, ‘cattle,’ Portug. zebro, ‘ox, cow,’ prove that zëbar was applied to large animals, and that the word was widely diffused in. <section end="Ungeziefer" /> <section begin="Unke" /> ,, ‘ringed snake,’ only; in  ûche ( ûhha), , ‘toad’;  and  unc, , ‘snake.’ Probably the  word is due to a combination of the older forms. <section end="Unke" /> <section begin="unlängst" /> ,, ‘recently, of late,’ from unlanges (unlange), ‘short time,’ with an excrescent t as in ,. <section end="unlängst" /> <section begin="Unrat" /> ,, ‘trash, rubbish, refuse,’ from and  unrât, , ‘helplessness, want, necessity, useless stuff’; allied to. <section end="Unrat" /> ,, ‘us, to us,’ from the  and  uns, in the same form common to  to supplement the declension of. ons, and  âs ( us),  uns. This uns (from ns) is certainly connected with nos (noster),  ἡμεῖς (for *ἀσ-μεῖς), and  nas, ‘us’;. — Allied to ,, ‘our,’ from  unser,  unsêr, The detailed history of the prenom. stem belongs to grammar. <section begin="Unschlitt" /> ', ', , ‘suet, tallow,’ from unslit (unselt), inslit (inselt), , ‘tallow,’ of which there are abundant variants in. unslit, ‘fat, tallow’ ( unslid, or rather unflid, ‘fat, grease, tallow,’ is uncertain). unsleht, ‘tallow’ (- inschlicht), seems to be connected with (in)geslehte,, ‘entrails.’ The derivation of the word cannot be more definitely determined, since the older forms are unknown;  and  ungel, ‘tallow,’ suggests the supposition that  unslit has originated in *ungslit. <section end="Unschlitt" /> ,, ‘below, beneath,