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Vor ,, ‘front, anterior, foremost,’ from vorder,  fordar, , ‘standing at the head of, former, anterior'; an old comparative with the Aryan suffix tero- ( -τερο-;   from anþero-). *faúrþara- is wanting; the connection with the root of faúra (see ) is apparent;   pûrva, ‘being before or in front,’ with purás, purâ, ‘before.’, , and  ( also ) are also allied. ,, ‘at hand, extant,’ from , ‘before the hands’;   (and ).  ,, ‘guardian, tutor,’ from vormunt (d), also vormunde, vormünde, , ‘intercessor, protector, guardian,’  foramunto, , ‘intercessor.’ Allied to  (2), under which another  word is mentioned ( also ).  ,, ‘in front, before,’ from the  vorn, vorne (vornen, vornân); in  the  forna is used only in dialects as an  of place. A derivative of for-, appearing in  and. ,, ‘distinguished, aristocratic,’ from vürnœme, ‘preferable, distinguished’;.

   , see.   ,, ‘honeycomb,’ from the  wabe,  and  (waben, )  waba,  (wabo, );  perhaps ‘texture,’ allied to. It is scarcely connected with favus. Allied also to.  ,, ‘to be agitated,’ from wabern, ‘to be in motion, move to and fro’;   vafra, ‘to move to and fro.’ —  ,, ‘flickering flame,’ formed like the  vafrlogi.  ',, ‘awake, on the alert,’ a remarkably late word (of the last ), which is entirely wanting in the earlier periods and dialects (in wacker, see ); a recent derivative of  and '. The latter is an old form;  wachen,  wahhên, ‘to wake, be awake,’  wakôn,  waken,  wacian, wœččan,  to wake, watch; also in  waken, , ‘to be awake, watch.’ For the early history of the cognates see the causative. The abstract form ',, ‘guard, watch,’ is from (very rare) wache, for which wahte,  , is the usual term; to this  ', , ‘watch, guardian,’ from  wahtœ̂re is allied.  ',, ‘juniper, gin’; the word has attained its present form by many inorganic changes; it is based on the  wëhhalturia ( wëcheltürre) and wëhhœltar ( wëcholter); in  also wachalter, quëckolter, rëckholter in represented by the modern  form ).  and  show that the derivative syllable is Mid   -ter; as in the case of , the final syllables were changed to ,  to . The signification of the l derivative,  *wëhhal, ‘juniper’ (also wëhhan- in  ), is entirety inexplicable.   ', , ‘wax,’ from the   and  wahs, , common to  in the same sense;   vax,  weahs,  wax,  and  was.   voskŭ,  wászkas, ‘wax,’ perhaps borrowed from , are closely related to this word.  , , ‘to grow, increase, thrive,’ from the   wahsen,  wahsan,  ; corresponding to the   wahsjan,  wahsan,  wassen,  weaxan,  to wax. The root wahs contained in these words, and perhaps cognate with that of, appears in non- as weks, uks;   vakš, ukš, ‘to grow strong or tall,’ Zend uχš,  ἀέξω (αὐξάνω), ‘to strengthen, increase, grow’;.  ,, ‘quail,’ from the  wahtel,  wahtala, ; corresponding to  wyhtel (rare; usually çrschęn). The term looks like a derivative of (root wak, ‘to be awake’). It is probable, however, that the word has attained its present form by many changes;  kwakkel, kwartel, ‘quail’ (phonetically cognate with  quaccila,  quaille,  quaglia, ‘quail’). The word for ‘quail,’ common to and  but unknown to, was wortok, wortog;   vartikâ,  ὄρτυξ, ‘quail.’ <section end="Wachtel" /> <section begin="Wacke" /> ,, ‘wacke, toadstone,’ from Mid <section end="Wacke" />