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Etymology 1
From, ultimately from. Appears in the ' of 712 and the ' completed some time after 759. Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.

Standalone form of. Compare, , and.

There are interesting potential phonetic and semantic overlaps with 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬, ; possibly even 🇨🇬,. One possibility is that these represent prehistoric nativized borrowings from Chinese. However, there is yet no clear evidence of relatedness.

Noun

 * 1)  mouth
 * 2)  opening
 * 3)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  opening
 * 2)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  taste (in food), preference
 * 1)  taste (in food), preference

Etymology 2
From, from , as mentioned in the  of 720.

The last cited usage was the  of.

Noun

 * 1)   hawk

Etymology 3
The of.

Noun

 * 1)  something rotten
 * 2)  a disease that makes ears of grain rot

Affix

 * 1)  rotting
 * 2)  aging

Noun

 * 1)  mouth, language, dialect, speech
 * 2)  remains, ashes
 * 3)  easterly