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Ehe from ê, êwe,, ‘customary right, justice, law, marriage,’  êwa, , ‘law, marriage’; corresponds to  êo, , ‘law,’  echt, ‘marriage’ (from ê-haft, see ),  œ̂, œ̂w, , ‘law, marriage.’ These West  cognates aiwi- might be derived from aigwí-, aihwí-, and connected with  aequum (base aiqo-). To this there is no objection from the linguistic standpoint, for it is probable that the cognates similar in sound and signifying ‘time, eternity,’ are totally different from those just quoted;  aiws,  êwa,  œ̂, œ̂w, ‘time, eternity,’ which are allied to  aevum, aeternus,  αἰών, αἰεί; so too  aỹas, ‘duration of life.’ Yet the first group might also perhaps be connected with  êva,, ‘progress, course, procedure, custom.’  ', ',, ‘sooner, earlier, rather,’ from and  êr (ê), ‘formerly, previously,’  ;   airis, ‘formerly,’ from air, ‘early,’ also  œ̂r,  ere. See,. , see.  , see.   ,, ‘honour,’ from êre,  êra, , ‘honour, fame, sense of honour’; corresponds to  êra, , ‘honour, protection, pardon, gift,’  âr, , ‘honour, help, pardon’ (ârian, ‘to spare, pardon’),  eir, , ‘pardon, gentleness.’  *aiza is by chance not recorded; it is probably allied to  ais-tan, ‘to shun, respect,’ which is undoubtedly  akin to  aes-tumare, ‘to acknowledge, value.’ It is probably connected with the  root iš, ‘to desire, seek to obtain.’   ,, ‘egg,’ from and  eì, , ‘egg’; common to  with the same meaning, although  *addjis,  (  egg), is wanting; ada, however, is found in. ei, ei,  œ̂g,   egg is borrowed from  egg. Between the aias (ajjas),, ‘egg,’ and the corresponding terms in the West Aryan languages there is an unmistakable agreement of sound, although the phonetic justification for the comparison has not yet been found;   óvum (Low  *ŏvum, on account of  œuf),  ὠόν,  jaje, aje (from the base *êjo-?),  og, ‘egg.’ Arguing from these cognates,  ajjas, , has been derived from êwjo-, ôwjo-, and connected with  avis,  vi, ‘bird.’ In East Aryan no corresponding word is found.   ,, ‘yew,’ from the  îwe,  îwa,  ( also ‘a yew-tree bow’);  the corresponding  îw, eów,  yew, and  ýr, , ‘yew’ (and ‘bow’). *eiws is by chance not recorded. Swiss îche, îge, îha,  îch,  eoh, prove that the word had originally a medial guttural; hence the primary form  *eihwa?. From the word,  îvus,  if,  iva, ‘yew,’ are derived. The relation of îwa, îha,  îw, eoh, to  éo,  yw, ‘yew’ ( jëvà, ‘bird-cherry tree,’  iva, ‘willows’), has yet to be determined.   ,, ‘marsh mallow,’ from îbische,  îbisca, , ‘marsh mallow, dwarf mallow’; borrowed early from the   ibiscum ( ἰβίσκος).   ,, ‘oak, oak-tree,’ from the  eich,  eih (hh), ; a term common to , but by chance not recorded in  (*aiks, );   eek (eik),  âc, ,  oak. In Iceland, where there are no trees, the old word eik,, received the general meaning ‘tree’ (for a similar change of meaning see , , ;  δρῦς, ‘oak, tree (generally).’ The term aik- is peculiar to ; whether it is connected with  eikenn,  ‘wild,’ and with the  root êj, ‘to shake,’ is undecided.   ', , from the   eichel,  eihhila, ‘acorn, fruit of the oak’ (corresponding to  eikel). The form was  a diminutive of , ‘the offspring of the oak,’ as it were; the derivative is wanting in  and . , , is not a cognate. — <section end="Eichel" /> <section begin="Eichhorn" /> ', , ‘squirrel,’ from the   eichorn,  eihhorn (*eicchorn according to Swiss eikχer), but corrupted at an early period by connecting it with . The   base cannot be discovered with any certainty, since the word has been transformed by popular etymology in all languages. eekhoren corresponds to the form. âc-wern (earlier âcweorna), ‘squirrel,’ is abnormal, and apparently a compound; still more remote is the  íkorne, from eik, ‘oak, tree.’ The implied Goth  word *aikawaírna (*eikawaírna) seems by its formation to resemble  widuwaírna,  diorna (see ); in that case  âcweorna ( íkorne) might be a diminutive of aik (îk?), ‘oak,’ meaning  ‘little <section end="Eichhorn" />