| simply; only apparently identical with the preceding word (comp. Dachtel); historically, however, it is probably allied to Goth. hnutô, ‘prick.’
Nute, f., from the equiv. MidHG. nuot, f., ‘joint, groove’; allied to OHG. hnuo, nuoa, ‘groove,’ as well as OHG. nuoil, MidHG. nuowel, nüejel, ‘groove, plane,’ nuotîsen, ‘iron of a groove plane.’ MidHG. nüejen, |
vb. (OHG. nuoen, from *hnôjan, ‘to smooth, fit exactly,’ also belongs to a Teut. root hnô.
nütze, adj., ‘useful,’ from MidHG. nütze, OHG. nuzzi, adj., ‘profitable’; Goth. un-nuts, ‘useless’; comp. AS. nytt, ‘useful.’ Allied to genießen, where other derivatives and cognates of the str. vb. are adduced. |
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ob (1.), prep. and adv., ‘over, above,’ from MidHG. obe, ob, prep. and adv., ‘aloft, above, across,’ so too OHG. oba; comp. AS. ufe-weard, ‘upper.’ ModHG. ob has been retained chiefly in compounds such as Obacht and Obdach. Allied to oben. ob (2.), conj., ‘whether, if,’ from MidHG. obe, ob, op, conj., ‘if, as if, although, whether,’ so too OHG. oba, with the earlier variant ibu, ‘if, whether’; corresponding to OSax. ef, of (AS. gif, E. if). Goth. ibai, iba, ‘whether then, perhaps, probably, lest perhaps,’ with the corresponding negative nidai, niba, ‘unless.’ The OHG. form is the dat. and instrum. of iba, f., ‘doubt, condition,’ OIc. ife, efe, m., and if, ef, n., ‘doubt.’ Hence the lit. meaning of the conj. is ‘in doubt, on condition.’ oben, adv., ‘above, aloft,’ from MidHG. obene, OHG. obana, adv., ‘above, from above’; so too OSax. oƀan, oƀana, ‘down from above,’ AS. ufan, ‘from above,’ E. preserved only in ab-ove. Allied to ober. ober (1.), compar., ‘upper, higher,’ from MidHG. obere, OHG. obaro, ‘the superior’; prop. the compar. of ob. From this was formed, even in OHG., a new superl. obarôst (MidHG. oberest). ober (2.), prep., ‘over, above, beyond,’ of MidG. and LG. origin, as is indicated by the stem vowel, for the o which prevails in MidG. and LG. obar, oƀar, AS. ofer, E. over, and the equiv. Du. over, is always represented in HG. by u. See über and auf. Oblate, f., from the equiv. MidHG. oblât, oblâte, f. and n., ‘the Host, wafer’; from Lat. oblâta (from offerre, which was adopted as opfern), whence also the equiv. AS. ofelête; MidE. oblê is formed, however, from OFr. oublee, whence ModFr. oublie. See Opfer. Obst, n., with an excrescent dental as |
in Axt, Mond, niemand, Palast, Papst; from the equiv. MidHG. obeȥ, OHG. obaȥ, n., ‘fruit.’ It is a West Teut. word; comp. Du. ooft, AS. ofet (Goth. *ubat is wanting, in OIc. alden). It is uncertain whether Goth. *ubat is akin to ober, über, root up-, thus signifying ‘what is above.’
Ochse, m., from the equiv. MidHG. ohse, OHG. ohso, m., ‘ox’; corresponding terms occur in all the OTeut. dials.; Goth. aukhsa, OIc. oxe, AS. oxa, E. ox, Du. os, OSax. ohso, ‘ox.’ The common Teut. ohsan- (from pre-Teut. uksén-) is primit. cognate with Sans. ukšán, ‘bull,’ the words Kuh and Stier being also common to the Aryan group. The Sans. root is ukš, ‘to spurt out,’ or ukš, ‘to grow strong, grow up.’ If the latter is correct, Ochse is connected with wachsen, yet it may be a masc. form of Lat. vacca, ‘cow.’ Ocker, m., from the equiv. MidHG. ocker, ogger, n. and m., ‘ochre.’ Borrowed from Lat. ochra (ὥχρα), ‘ochre,’ whence also Ital. ocra, Fr. ocre. öde, adj., ‘deserted, waste,’ from MidHG. œde, adj., ‘uncultivated, uninhabited, empty, foolish, poor, infirm,’ OHG. ôdi, ‘desolate, empty’; corresponding to Goth. auþs, ‘desolate, solitary, unfertile,’ OIc. auðr. In some of the languages of the Teut. group there occurs an adj. similar in sound, but apparently of a different etymology, with the meaning ‘easy.’ Comp. OSax. oði, OHG. ôdi, AS. ŷþe, eáþe, OIc. auð- (in compounds), ‘easy.’ The prim. meanings of both classes are uncertain. Öde, f., ‘waste, solitude, wilderness,’ from MidHG. œde, OHG. ôdî, f., ‘desert.’ Comp. the Goth. derivative auþida, ‘desert.’ Odem, equiv. to Atem. oder, conj., from the equiv. MidHG. oder, OHG. odar, ‘or, else’; the OHG. and MidHG. ordinary form are without r; |
