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The modern English word " evil " ( Old English ) and its cognates such as the German and Dutch are widely considered to come from a Proto-Germanic reconstructed form of * ubilaz, comparable to the Hittite huwapp-ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form and suffixed zero-grade form.

Other later Germanic forms include Middle English, Old Frisian ( adjective and noun ), Old Saxon, Old High German, and evil Gothic.