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Ebe ,, ‘even, level, plain, smooth,’ from ëben,  ëban, , ‘level, flat, straight’; common to  under these meanings, but it is not found in any other Aryan group;   eƀan,  even,  ëfn,  even,  jafn,  ibns, ‘level.’ Akin perhaps to  ibuks, , ‘backward’ (see ). Apart from the stem ib in the form ep or ebh has not yet been authenticated;  œ̂quus ( êka), cannot, on account of phonetic differences, be regarded as a cognate. —

,, ‘even, just,’ from ëbene,  ëbano;   ëfno,  ëfne (whence  even); the old  form of the  ( .)  ,, ‘ebony-tree,’ from the  and late  ebênus, adopted as a foreign word (still declined after the  method in ) from  ebenus ( ἔβενος).   ,, from the  ëber,  ëbar, , ‘wild boar’; corresponds to  eofor, , ‘wild boar’ ( York from  Eoforwic,  ‘boar-town’),  jǫfurr, ‘wild boar,’ figuratively ‘prince’ (also jórbjúga, ‘a kind of sausage’);  *ibrus, *ibarus. With the pre- base eprús some have connected veprĭ,,  aper, , ‘wild boar.’ Similarly in the terms for  and , the West Aryan languages only partially agree.   ,, ‘southern-wood,’ from the late  eberitz (ebereize), , from  abrotanum (whence also , see ), but corrupted by connection with.  ,, ‘genuine, real, legitimate,’ simply adopted from  and , where  is the normal corresponding of  and  êhaft, ‘lawful’;   echt; akin to  âft, ‘lawful’; from , compared with which the  has retained the old meaning of , ‘law.’ By means of the law-books based on the Saxon Code the   found its way into  but not until after Luther; yet the word does not occur in the  dialects.  ',, ', , ‘edge, corner,’ from ęcke,  (seldom ), ‘edge of weapons, point, corner, brim,’  ękka, , ‘point, edge of a sword.’ Corresponds to  ęggia, , ‘edge, sharpness, sword,’  ęcg, ‘corner, point, edge (of a sword, &c.), sword,’  edg,,  egg, , ‘point’:  *agja, , is not recorded. The meaning ‘point, sharp edge,’ which origi - nally was the most prominent in the cognates (see also ), recalls the development in. The root ag(ah), pre- ak ( agjô-, from Aryan akyã-), with the primary meaning ‘pointed,’ is found in very many non- languages, since   and the non- words cited under that word are  allied to it, as are also  acies,  ἀκίς, ‘point,’ both in form and meaning.   ,, ‘acorn,’ simply , from and  ecker, ‘acorn, beech nut’; there is also in  a word *acheren  allied and  to Swiss ackeram ( akram). the corresponding akran,, ‘produce, fruit (generally),’  akarn, ,  œcern,  acorn,  aker, ‘acorn.’ Since the meaning ‘acorn, beechnut,’ is a recent specialisation in comparison with  akran, ‘produce, fruit,’ the cognates nay be connected with  akrs,  , and perhaps also with  ŭga, ‘berry,’ unless the later is more closely allied to  uva. In any case its kinship with must be denied, since the latter would be *aiks in. The mutation of the stem in and   must be explained by a  *akrin.  ,, ‘of noble birth or qualities, excellent, generous,’ from ędel, ędele,  ędili (adal-), , ‘of a good family, noble, high-minded’; a  of ,  adal. ęðili (aðal-), ‘of a good family, noble,’ from aðali, ‘noble family,’ œðele, ‘noble, distinguished.’ For details see.  , see.   ,, ‘harrow,’ simply , from egge; likewise  from , because a corresponding  word would be  or. The word is ęgede,  ęgida,, ‘harrow,’  ęcken ( gi-ęgit), ‘to harrow,’  ęgen. egge, ęgeðe;  *agjan, ‘to harrow,’ *agiþa, ‘harrow,’ are not recorded. The root ag (ah), ‘to harrow,’ from pre- ak, ok, is most closely connected with  occa, ‘harrow,’  akėiti, ‘to harrow,’ akėczos, ‘harrow,’ OCorn. ocet, oged, ‘harrow.’ The West  cognates may also be further connected with  ( acies).  ,, ‘before,’ from ê, a parallel form to  ,  êr, like   from ,  from. See.  ,, ‘marriage, wedlock, matrimony,’ <section end="Ehe" />