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Wol has been rightly compared with the Aryan root welk, ‘to march,’ preserved in ἕλκω,  vlęką, so that  meant perhaps ‘robber.’ The word was often used in  to form names of persons; , under ; , from Ruodolf ( ‘famous wolf,’ see ), , from Adalolf ( ‘noble wolf, see ).   ,, ‘cloud,’ from the  wolken,  wolchan, ; also in   wolke,  wolcha, , ‘cloud.’ Corresponding to  wolcan, ,  wolk,  wolcen, ‘cloud’ (to which  welkin is allied). Under welk a pre- root welg, ‘moist,’ is assumed, with which the term wolkôn (wolken-),, ‘cloud’ ( ‘the moist thing’), peculiar to West , is connected.   ,, ‘wool, down,’ from the  wolle,  wolla, ; corresponding to  wulla,  wull,  wool,  wol. wullô-, from pre- wlná (for ll from ln see and ), corresponding the Aryan languages to  ûrṇâ,  vlŭna,  vílna, ‘wool’; in  villus, vellus. ũrṇâ is connected with a root vṛ, ‘to cover, wrap’ ( ûrṇõmi); hence (Aryan wlnâ) meant  ‘that which covers.’  εἰρος, ἔριον, ‘wool,’ cannot be related to the common Aryan cognates (root wel).  ,, ‘to wish, be willing, have a mind to, intend,’ from the  wollen (węllen),  wellan (węllan); an anomalous ; the further details belong to grammar. węllian, willian, willen,  willan,  to will,  wiljan. The connection between the root wel, ‘to wish,’ with which  and  are also connected, and the   velle is apparent;  also  vṛ (var), ‘to choose, prefer,’  voliti, ‘to be willing.’  βούλομαι ‘to be willing,’ is, on the other hand, not allied; it is more probably related to  ἐθέλω, θέλω, ‘to wish,’ which, like  hary, ‘to desire,’ points to an Aryan ghel (ghwel), which would produce in  likewise a root wël, ‘to be willing.’  ,, ‘delight, voluptuousness,’ from wol-lust,  and , ‘gratification, joy, pleasure, enjoyment, merry life, voluptuousness.’   ,, ‘rapture, ecstasy, bliss,’ from wunne (wünne),  wunna (wunni), , ‘joy, pleasure, the most beauti - ful and best’; corresponding to  wunnia, ‘joy,’  wynn. *wunni ( *wunnjôs) was probably a verbal abstract of wunan, ‘to rejoice,’ the root of which (Aryan wen, ‘to be pleased’) appears in. wunnea ( wünne), ‘pasture-land,’ has been considered as identical with ; yet that word, like winja, ‘pasture, fodder,’ has its own early history. It has been preserved in, ‘month of May,’ wunnemânôt (winnemânôt), on. wunni-, winni-, mânôd, ‘pasture month.’  ,, ‘to fan, winnow,’ only; intensive of. , see.  ,, ‘word, term, expression,’ from the  and  wort, ; corresponding to  waúrd, , , and  word,  woord. The common wordo, ‘word,’ based on Aryan wṛdho-, is  to  verbum ( b for Aryan dh, as in, ),  wirds, ‘word,’ and  vardas, ‘name.’  has with lees reason been regarded as an old  wr-tó- (for the suffix   and ), and derived from the root wer (wrê), appearing in  ῥήτωρ, ‘orator,’ ῥήτρα, ‘saying,’ ἐρέω, ‘to ask,’ and with which  breth, ‘sentence,’ based on Aryan wṛto-, is connected.   ,, ‘wreck, refuse,’ only, from ;   wrak,  wreck. Based on wrak, ‘useless, damaged,’ and wraken, ‘to cast out.’   ,, ‘usury, interest,’ from wuocher,  wuohhar,  and , ‘produce, fruit, gain, profit’; corresponding to  wôkrs, ‘usury.’ The  and  sense ‘descendants’ points to a  root wak, ‘to arise, bear,’ which is identical with the Aryan root wō̆g, ‘to be astir, successful, energetic’ (see );   vãja, , ‘power, strength, nourishment, prosperity,’ and  onwœcnan, ‘to be born.’ In meaning the Aryan root aug, ‘to increase,’ cognate with Aryan wog, is more closely connected;   augere,  aukan ( augti, ‘to grow’). <section end="Wucher" /> <section begin="Wuchs" /> ,, ‘growth, development’; only, a graded form, from. <section end="Wuchs" /> <section begin="Wucht" /> ,, ‘weight, burden,’ only, from  wucht, a variant of. <section end="Wucht" /> <section begin="wühlen" /> ,, ‘to root, grub up, burrow, rummage, stir up,’ from the  wüelen,  wuolen (from *wôljan);<section end="wühlen" />