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Unt ,’ from the   unden,  untanân. Allied to , and, ‘below, under,’ from  and  unter, under,  untar ; but untari, ; corresponding to  and  undar,  onder,  and  under. The Aryan ndhér, on which these are based, appears also in  infra ( inferior) and  adhás, ‘beneath’ (adhara, ‘the lower’).  ,, ‘embezzlement, smuggling,’ only, allied to  undersliufœre, ‘cheat’;   undersliefen, ‘to cheat, deceive,’ underslouf, ‘hiding-place.’  , ‘subject to, dependent,’ from the   undertân,  untartân. Properly a of  undertuon,  untartuon, ‘to subjugate, bring into subjection.’ See. ', ',, ‘on the way,’ from under wëgen, ‘on the way, away.’ ,, ‘cross, rude, morose,’ from (rare) unwirs, usually unwirdesch, ‘unworthy, contemptuous, indignant, angry.’   unwërt, ‘despised, unsuited, disagreeable’; allied to. See also.  ,, ‘ounce,’ from unze,  unza, , ‘weight,’ from  uncia.   ,, ‘luxurious, voluptuous, sumptuous,’ from üppic (g),  uppîg, ‘superfluous, useless, invalid, frivolous, arrogant.’ For the connection of this specifically  word with  ufjô, , ‘superfluity,’ and  uppi, ‘malicious,’ as well as with the cognates of  and , see.   , see.   ,, from and  ur-; an accented prefix of which  ( er-,  ir-) is the unaccented form. In, ur, ‘out of,’ is met with as a  The prefix signifies ‘out of, originally, in the beginning.’  has us (uz), of which there are no certain cognates in the other Aryan languages.   ,, ‘great-grandfather,’ from urane; see. —  ,, ‘extremely old, primeval,’ from the  and  uralt; allied to. —  ,, ‘produce, landed property,’ from urbor, urbar,  and , ‘copyhold, rent, income’;  perhaps ‘tax, produce, rent’ (  gabaúr, ‘tax’). Hence ,, ‘arable,’ ‘bearing interest, productive’ ( only). —   ,, ‘solemn oath not to take vengeance on an enemy,’ from the  urvêhede (urvêhe), ; see. — <section end="Urfehde" /> <section begin="Urheber" /> ,, ‘author, originator,’ a derivative of  urhap (b), , ‘beginning, cause, origin’ (allied to ). <section end="Urheber" /> <section begin="Urkunde" /> ,, ‘deed, document, charter,’ from urkunde (urkünde),  and , ‘testimony, proof, document,’  urchundî, , ‘testimony’; allied to  (hence  ‘recognition’). — <section end="Urkunde" /> <section begin="Urlaub" /> ,, ‘leave of absence, furlough,’ from and  úrloup (b),  and , ‘permission’; an abstract from , ‘to permit,  erlouben,  irloubôn. — <section end="Urlaub" /> <section begin="Ursache" /> ,, ‘cause,’ from ursache. — <section end="Ursache" /> <section begin="Ursprung" /> ,, ‘source, origin,’ from úrsprunc, úrsprinc (g),  úrspring,  and , ‘source’; allied to ,. — <section end="Ursprung" /> <section begin="Urtel" /> ', ',, ‘judgment, sentence, decision,’ from urteil, urteile,  and , ‘judicial decision’; allied to  ( ‘that which is imparted’). oordeel, ordâl, ‘judgment’ (whence  ordalie, ‘judgment of God,’  ordalium). <section end="Urtel" /> ,, ‘to jeer at, mock,’ only; a derivative of the proper name , an abbrev. form of. .

<section begin="V" /> <section end="V" /> <section begin="Vater" /> ,, ‘father,’ from the  vater,  fater; common to  and Aryan in the same sense;   (rare) fadar (usually atta),  faðer,  fœder,  father,  vader, vaar,  fadar. fadêr, from Aryan patḗr;  pater,  πατήρ,  pitṛ (for patṛ), ‘father.’ Aryan pa-tḗr has been derived from the  root pâ, ‘to guard,  protect,’ so that  would mean  ‘protector.’ An English preacher of the 12th  connected the word in a similar way with  fêdan,  to feed (see ); hence,  ‘nourisher.’ Neither interpretation is historically certain, since Aryan pa-ter is probably based on an instinctive sound (   πᾶ, ‘father,’ πάππα);  , , and <section end="Vater" />