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Est  vinum acre) has also made its way into other countries — acǐtŭ (from  akeits?),  acat. — The  , ‘to taste of vinegar,’ may perhaps be based upon some such form as  aisil ( aisil).   ', , ‘floor, plaster-floor, pavement,’ from the   ęstrĭch, ęsterĭch,  estirĭh, astrĭ(hh), ;   astrak, esterck,  estrik (these two forms are not recorded). In Middle Germany the word, which was unknown to Luther, is not found. Perhaps it is really native to the valleys of the Rhine and Danube, being introduced by Roman colonists.  early  astricus, astracus, ‘paving,’  astregh,  astracu,  lastrico;  astre,  âtre, ‘hearth,’  ‘pavement.’  ', , ‘some, sundry,’ from  ëtelich,  ëtalîh, also earlier  , from  ëteslich,  ëtteslîch, ëtteshwëlich, ‘any one’ ( ‘many a one’). The same first component is seen in, from the  ëtwâ (ëteswâ),  ëtteswâr, ‘anywhere’; , from  and  ëtewaȥ ( of  and  ëtewër, ëteswër, ‘any one’). The origin of this pronominal ëte, ëtes, ëttes, ëddes, ‘any,’ is quite obscure. Some have compared it with aíþþau, ‘perhaps, nearly’ (see ), and þishwazuh, ‘every.’ ,, ‘you, to you,’ from iuch, iuwich,  iuwih, , the  of which, however, is in in  and  ;   eów (and eówic), , eow,  ( you),  izwis, ,. Is vos, vester, akin? All other references are dubious. — ,  of the preceding, ‘your,’ from  iuwer,  iuwar. eówer, your,  izwar, ‘your.’  ,, ‘owl,’ from the  iule, iuwel,  ûwila,. wil, ûle (from *ûwle),  owl,  ugla, from pre- *uwwalô, or rather *uwwilô, ‘owl.’   , Swiss, ‘sheepfold.’ See.   , and, ‘udder, dug,’ from the   iuter, ûter,  ûtar, ûtiro, ; a word common to  and  a  Aryan word, which has the same sense everywhere. uijer, ûder,  udder; also with gradation eudar in  jeder,  iader,  júgr. The-resulting ûdr-, eudr-, from Aryan ûdhr-, corresponds to the   ûdhar,  οὔθαρ (with gradation),  ûber;  vymę (from *vyd-men-), ‘udder,’ is differently derived.  ,, ‘eternal, perpetual,’ from the  êwic(g),  êwig; corresponding to  êwig,  eeuwig, ‘eternal’; derived from an  root meaning ‘eternity.’   aiws, ‘time, eternity,’  êwa, ‘eternity,’ which are  cognate with  aevum, ‘eternity, lifetime,’ and  αἰών. . ,, ‘to vex, tease,’ a and  word, probably connected with ; allied also to  ickern with the same sense.

  

,, ‘fable,’ even in fabel, fabele, , from  fable,  fabula.   ,, ‘compartment, shelf, panel, special branch,’ from vach,  fah(hh), , ‘part, division of space, of a partition, wall, &c.,’ also ‘contrivance, an enclosed space in water for catching fish, fish-weir, hurdles for fishing’; with the latter meanings some have connected  πάγη, ‘noose, snare, fishing hurdles,’ to which there is no objection phonetically. Yet we must proceed in the case of the word as well as of  fœc, ‘space, time,’ from a general and primary sense, such as ‘division, a portion of space or time.’ Allied to. — <section end="Fach" /> ,, suffix, ‘-fold,’ from  (very rare) vach, in manecvach, zwivach,  not found; ,  ‘with many divisions’; moreover,  vach, denotes also ‘fold,’ and  as a suffix may be an imitation of the earlier suffix -falt in manecvalt, ‘manifold.’ <section begin="fächeln" /> ,, ‘to fan,’ simply from. <section end="fächeln" /> <section begin="Fächer" /> , earlier also, , ‘fan,’ only; the derivation is uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of  vach, ‘veil.’ Yet the suspicion that the word was borrowed is not unfounded, since  foche, focher, ‘fan,’ point to  focarius, foculare (from focus). The change of <section end="Fächer" />