* Rather unlikely but very popular is the connection to a dragon saga ( see Lindworm ) and the connection with the monastery of Saint George the “ Dragon Slayer ” founded in Limburg.

Lindworm < BR > ( wingless bipedal dragon ) in British heraldry

In the 19th-century tale of " Prince Lindworm " ( also " King Lindworm "), from Scandinavian folklore, a " half-man half-snake " lindworm is born, as one of twins, to a queen, who, in an effort to overcome her childless situation, has followed the advice of an old crone, who tells her to eat two onions.

This Herrauðr is the same as the Geatish earl who gave his daughter Þóra Town-Hart to Ragnar Lodbrok, when he had saved her from the Lindworm in a number of other sagas.

In Prince Lindworm, the woman eats two onions, but does not peel one, resulting in her first child being a lindworm.

At an extreme, in Prince Lindworm, the bride who avoids being eaten by the lindworm bridegroom arrives at her wedding wearing every gown she owns, and she tells the bridegroom she will remove one of hers if he removes one of his ; only when her last gown comes off has he removed his last skin, and become a white shape that she can form into a man.

The name is certainly cognate with the Doric month name Απέλλαιος and the Doric festival απελλαι.

It originates from the Proto-Indo-European * ( syllabic nasal ) and is cognate with English un -.

For the country there is the term Usono, cognate with the English word Usonia later popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

) If ball-was native in Germanic, it may have been a cognate with the Latin foll-is in sense of a " thing blown up or inflated.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

A more recent etymology by Xavier Delamarre would derive it from a Common Celtic * Beltinijā, cognate with the name of the Lithuanian goddess of death Giltinė, the root of both being Proto-Indo-European * gʷelH-" suffering, death ".

The English " cumin " derives from the Old English cymen ( or Old French cumin ), from Latin cuminum, which is the latinisation of the Greek κύμινον ( kuminon ), cognate with Hebrew כמון ( kammon ) and Arabic كمون ( kammun ).

The word agni is Sanskrit for fire ( noun ), cognate with Latin ignis ( the root of English ignite ), Russian огонь ( fire ), pronounced agon.

In some cases, such as " shirt " and " skirt ", one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse borrowed during the Danelaw.

Latin habere, on the other hand, is from PIE * gʰabʰ, ' to give, to receive ', and hence cognate with English give and German geben.

Contrast this with false friends, which frequently are cognate.

The same word for “ sea ” is also known from Germanic, but with an a (* mari -), whereas a cognate of marbh is unknown in all dialects of Germanic.

The tsa lung practices such as those embodied in Trul Khor lineages open channels so lung ( Lung is a Tibetan term cognate with vayu ) may move without obstruction.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

Gaulish karnon " horn " is cognate with Latin cornu and Germanic * hurnaz, English horn, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

The English term " empiric " derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word " experience " and the related " experiment ".

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

Its Indo-European origins are confirmed by the many cognate words in other Indo-European languages: It is cognate with Greek πέρδομαι ( perdomai ), Latin pēdĕre, Sanskrit pardate, Avestan pərəδaiti, Italian pettare, French " péter ", Russian пердеть ( perdet ') and Polish " pierd " << PIE * perd wind loudly or * pezd same, softly, all of which mean the same thing.

Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit prīyā ́ which means " wife.

For example, German Rat ( pronounced with a long " a ") (= " council ") is cognate with English " read " and German and Dutch Rede (= " speech ", often religious in nature ) ( hence Æthelred the ' Unready ' would not heed the speech of his advisors, and the word ' unready ' is cognate with the Dutch word " onraad " meaning trouble, danger ), while English and Dutch " rat " for the rodent has its German cognate Ratte.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

The Old English cognate was dréag (" apparition, ghost ").

Eos is cognate to Vedic Sanskrit ' Ushas ' and Latin Aurora, both goddesses of dawn, and all three considered derivatives of a PIE stem * H₂ewsṓs (→ * Ausṓs ), " dawn ", a stem that also gave rise to Proto-Germanic * Austrō, Old Germanic Ôstara and Old English Ēostre / Ēastre.

The generic * þiuda-" people " occurs in many personal names such as Thiud-reks and also in the ethnonym of the Swedes from a cognate of Old English Sweo-ðēod and Old Norse: Sui-þióð ( see e. g. Sö Fv1948 ; 289 ).

The term gambeson is a loan from Old French gambeson, gambaison, originally wambais, formed after the Middle High German term wambeis " doublet ", in turn from Old High German wamba " stomach " ( cognate to womb.

The word graal, as it is earliest spelled, comes from Old French graal or greal, cognate with Old Provençal grazal and Old Catalan gresal, meaning " a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal " ( or other various types of vessels in Southern French dialects ).

Old English ig is actually a cognate of Latin aqua ( water ).

This word seems to be cognate, but while it is well-attested in Western Old Japanese and Northern Ryūkyū, in Eastern Old Japanese it only occurs in compounds, and it is only present in three subdialects of the South-Ryūkyūan dialect group.

Old Norse kenna ( Modern Icelandic kenna, Swedish känna, Danish kende, Norwegian kjenne or kjenna ) is cognate with Old English cennan, Old Frisian kenna, kanna, Old Saxon ( ant ) kennian ( Middle Dutch and Dutch kennen ), Old High German ( ir -, in -, pi -) chennan ( Middle High German and German kennen ), Gothic kannjan < Proto-Germanic * kannjanan, originally causative of * kunnanan “ to know ( how to )”, whence Modern English can ' to be able ' ( from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Modern English know and Latin-derived cognition ).

The word sword comes from the Old English sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Old Norse sverð, from a Proto-Indo-European root * swer-" to wound, to cut ".

The English word truth is from Old English tríewþ, tréowþ, trýwþ, Middle English trewþe, cognate to Old High German triuwida, Old Norse tryggð.

The English word true is from Old English ( West Saxon ) ( ge ) tríewe, tréowe, cognate to Old Saxon ( gi ) trûui, Old High German ( ga ) triuwu ( Modern German treu " faithful "), Old Norse tryggr, Gothic triggws, all from a Proto-Germanic * trewwj-" having good faith ".

Yet other sources derive the word from warg-wolf, where warg ( or later werg and wero ) is cognate with Old Norse vargr, meaning " rogue ", " outlaw " or, euphemistically, " wolf ".

Both words are thought to be derived from Common Germanic * jeχʷla -, and are cognate to Gothic ( fruma ) jiuleis and Old Norse ( Icelandic and Faroese ) jól ( Danish and Swedish jul and Norwegian jul or jol ) as well as ýlir.

The name frog derives from Old English frogga, ( compare Old Norse frauki, German Frosch, older Dutch spelling kikvorsch ), cognate with Sanskrit plava ( frog ), probably deriving from Proto-Indo-European praw = " to jump ".

In Norse mythology, the Jotun ( jötnar in Old Norse, a cognate with ettin ) are often opposed to the gods.

The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English ( around 1000 ) mōnandæg and mōndæg ( literally meaning " moon's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendach ( modern Dutch Maandag ), Old High German mānetag ( modern German Montag ), and Old Norse mánadagr ( Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur.

The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English ( before 700 ) Sunnandæg ( literally meaning " sun's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach ( modern Dutch zondag ), Old High German sunnun tag ( modern German Sonntag ), and Old Norse sunnudagr ( Danish and Norwegian søndag, Icelandic sunnudagur and Swedish söndag ).

The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be * friggjar-dagr.

The most common plural form in English is cognate with the masculine nominative-accusative plural ( Old English-as ) and is also cognate with the Old Saxon plural-os and the Old Norse plural-ar.

( That name is itself a borrowing of the Old English Eoforwic ; the Old English diphthong eo being cognate with the Norse diphthong jo, the Old English intervocalic f typically being pronounced softly as a modern v, and wic being the Old English version of the Norse vik.

Richard North theorizes that glossing Latin vanitates (" vanities ", " idols ") for " gods " in Old English sources implies the existence of * uuani ( a reconstructed cognate to Old Norse Vanir ) in Deiran dialect and hence that the gods that Edwin of Northumbria and the northern Angles worshiped in pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon England were likely to have been the * uuani.

In Old English, sib (" family ") is cognate with Old Norse Sif and sif.

The Old English cognate terms wælcyrge and wælcyrie appear in several Old English manuscripts, and scholars have explored whether the terms appear in Old English by way of Norse influence, or reflect a tradition also native among the Anglo-Saxon pagans.

The Old Norse valkyrja is cognate to Old English wælcyrge.