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Erk  ,, ‘bow, projection (of a building), balcony,’ from the  ärker, erker, ; the latter is formed from  arcora (a late  of Lit. arcus, ‘bow’)?.  , earlier, , ‘to allow, permit, grant,’ from erlouben (erleuben),  irlouben (irlouppen), ‘to allow’;   uslaubjan, ‘to permit, grant,’  âlŷfan. The original meaning of, like that of , is ‘to approve,’ which is also inherent in the root lub, upon which the word is based ( , , , which are connected by gradation of the root lub, liub, laub). An old abstract of appears in. ,, ‘illustrious, noble,’ from erliuht (with a  vowel erlûht), ‘illuminated, famous’; a  of erliuhten. See and.  ,, ‘alder,’ from the  ęrle,  ęrila, ęlira (to this is allied  , ‘minnow,’  ęrlinc,  ‘elder fish’?). eller, els (, ‘wild service-berry’),  alor,  alder,  ǫlr, elrer, elre;  *alisa (*aluza) appears in  alisa, ‘alder,’  alize, ‘wild service-berry.’ The change of the   ęlira to ęrila is analogous to  waírilôs compared with  wëleras, ‘lips’ (see ). Cognates of, like those of , , &c., are found in the non- languages. jelĭcha, alnus (for *alsnus), ‘alder.’.   ,, ‘sleeve,’ from the  ęrmel. ęrmilo, armilo, ; diminutive of. the diminutive form of, viustelinc, ‘mitten,’ also  vingerlîn, ‘ring (worn on the finger),’  of ,  thimble,  of thumb.   ,, ‘earnestness, seriousness, gravity,’ from ërnest, ,  ërnust, , , ‘contest, earnest, decision of character’; corresponding to  ernst,  eornost, ‘duel, earnest,’  earnest; the suffix -n-ust as in ; see also. Akin also to orrosta, ‘battle’; the stem er (erz?, ers?) is not found elsewhere with a similar meaning; the evolution in meaning resembles that of,. The cognates in other Aryan languages are uncertain. — The, simply , is represented by ërnesthaft in  and by ërnusthaft and ërnustlîch in     ,, ‘harvest,’ from the  ęrne, , like  , from the   hüffe,  of huf;  erne ( and  ärn), a  used as a , is related similarly to  aran, ‘harvest,’ which, like  asans, ‘harvest, autumn,’ is connected with a root as, ‘to work in the fields,’ widely diffused in. asneis ( ęsni, ęsne), ‘day-labourer,’  ǫnn (from *aznu),, ‘work, season for tillage’; akin to  arnôn, ‘to harvest’ ( earnian,  to  to earn,  árna?),  asten, ‘to cultivate.’ Probably  annôna (for *asnôna), ‘produce of corn,’ belongs to the  root as.  ,, ‘to conquer, win,’ from er-obern, ‘to excel, conquer,’ allied to ,. —  ,, ‘to discuss, determine,’ formed from late örtern, ortern, ‘to examine thoroughly,’ from  ort, ‘beginning, end.’ —  ,, ‘to revive, refresh,’ from the  erquicken, ‘to reanimate, wake from the dead,’  ir-quicchan; allied to , ,. —  , see.  ,, ‘first,’ from êrst,  êrist, ‘the first’; corresponding to  êrist,  œ̂rest, ‘the first’; superlat. of the form cited under. airis,, formerly,’ airiza, ‘predecessor, ancestor,’ êriro (êrro), ‘predecessor’; the positive is preserved in  air. , ‘early,’ œ̂r, , ‘early,’  ár, , ‘early’ ( êr-acchar, ‘‘awake early’). Probably the stem air-, on which the word was based, was used like, only of the hours of the day. It is connected most probably with ἦρς, ‘early in the morning.’ ,, ‘to stifle, choke,’ from ersticken, , ‘to be stifled,’ and erstecken, , ‘to stifle.’  ,, ‘to mention, call to notice,’ formed from the  gewęhenen,  giwahinnen, giwahannen ( gi-wuog,  giwaht and giwahinit), allied to  giwaht, ‘mention, fame.’  *wahnjan belongs to the root wok, wō̆q ( wah), ‘to speak,’ which is widely diffused in the Aryan languages. vox, ‘voice,’ vocare, ‘to call,’ ὅσσα for ϝόκjα and ὁπ- (for ϝοπ), ‘voice,’ ἔπος (for ϝέπος), ‘word,’  root vac, ‘to say, speak.’ In  this old root was not so widely developed. <section end="erwähnen" />