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Eic ’?. the diminutive forms squiriolus, ,  vĕverica. On the other hand, some maintain that weorn in âcweorna means ‘tail,’ while others connect it with  viverra, derived from a North  word ( voverě,  veverica). At all events, since the cognates include, , and , we need not suppose the word was borrowed from a Southern  term;  sciûrus ( σκίουρος),  ecureuil,  esquilo ( squiriolus) — whence  squirrel — are too remote in sound from the  words. There is no reason for assuming that the word was borrowed from another source.  ', ',, ‘to gauge,’ from îchen (ähten), ‘to survey, gauge, inspect’; akin to  îche, îch, , ‘measure, official standard, office of weights and measures’; corresponds to  ijk, ‘gauge, stamp,’ ijken, ‘to gauge, stamp.’ In  and  ike, , means ‘gauge mark, instrument for gauging,’ generally ‘a pointed instrument, lance,’ for which reason the cognates have been derived from a  root îk, ‘to prick.’ Yet  ähten points to a connection with ahten. In  (see ) has a parallel form. The solution of the difficulty with regard to has not yet been found. The spelling of the word with ai is also remarkable, since in  and  ei corresponds to the  î.  , see.   ,, ‘oath, execration,’ from the  eit(d),  eid, ; a word common to , but not found in the other groups;  aiþs,  eiðr,  âþ,  oath,  eed,  éth, ; for the common  aiþa-z, from pre- ói-to-s (  oeth, ‘oath’), no suitable cognate has yet been found. and its cognates are scarcely allied to it, though may be so.   ,, ‘son-in-law,’ from eidem, , ‘son-in-law,’ also ‘father-in-law’ ( , , , , with regard to the fluctuating meaning),  eidum, ‘son-in-law’; corresponds to  âðum,  âthum, ‘son-in-law.’  *aiþmus (?) is wanting, the word mêgs (see ) being used. This merely West term, the derivation of which appears to be similar to that of, is connected with  eide,  eidî,  aiþei, ‘mother.’ It is not impossible that it may  be allied to  also;   son-in-law. In and   is unknown, the word used being.   ,, ‘awn, beard,’. See.   ,, from the  ęgedëhse,  ęgidëhsa, , ‘lizard’; like , the word has been corrupted in various ways in the other languages of the West  group, so that it is impossible to discover its primary meaning. haagdis, hagedis, ‘lizard,’ is based on haag, ‘hedge,’ in eggedisse;  âþëxe, whence  ask, asker, ‘water-newt,’ is altogether obscure. The component -dëhsa,  -þëxe (to use, ‘lizards,’ in natural history as an  term for , ‘Saurians,’ is a mistake due to a wrong derivation), may be connected with the Aryan root teks, ‘to make,’ which appears in ;  ęgi-dëhsa,  ‘one who inspires fear’?. ęgi, agis, ‘fear,’  cognate with  ἄχος, ‘pain, sadness.’   ', ',, ‘eider-duck,’ simply from  eider; the latter, like  eider, eider-duck, is from  œ̂þr ( œ̂þar), œþekolla, ‘eider-duck’ (  œ is pronounced like ei). Eider-down was brought by the Hanse traders from Iceland to England and Germany, and from the latter imported into Sweden ( ejder, ejderdun). To the œ̂þr,  âtí-, ‘water-bird,’ may correspond; the latter, it is true, is mostly connected with ;  further  ȧdder,   ȧda, ‘eider-duck’ (from  *áþr, without mutation).   ,, ‘zeal, fervour, passion,’ from late îfer,  (îfern, ), ‘zeal, jealousy.’ The word appeared at a remarkably late period (15th ), and its previous history is quite obscure; it found its way from , in connection with Luther's translation of the Bible, into , ,  and. Nothing can be adduced in favour of the assumption that the world was borrowed from. An older, , ‘sharp, bitter’ (as late as Logan),  eivar, eibar, ‘sharp, bitter,’  âfor, ‘sharp, bitter,’ might perhaps be cognate with. <section end="Eifer" /> ,, ‘own, pertinent, peculiar, odd,’ from the  eigen,  eigan; an  common to ;   êgan,  eigen,  âgen,  own,  eiginn;  used swês for *aigans. The old  is, as the suffix n shows,