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ant

Cognates: *mai ‘to cut’ [Proto-Indo-European]  *a-mait-jon ‘biter’ [Proto-Germanic] amete (Middle Low German] # amete [Middle Dutch] aemete [Old English] # aemette [Old English] # amete ‘ant’ [Middle...

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dizzy and giddy

*dheu ‘to flow, to run’ ‘to die, to faint, to vanish’ to shine brightly ‘to blow, to dissipate, to flt about like dust’ Cognates dizzy *gheu # ‘to pour, to pour a libation’ ‘to die, to disappear, to...

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risar

Cognate with ‘rise’? PIE *H3er-s ‘rise, protrude’? Old Norse Risar ‘mountain giants’ Old Norse Bergrisar ‘mountain giants’ Old Icelandic risi, risar ‘giant, giants’; risa-barn ‘giant-child’; risa-folk...

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