and

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , from , from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (dialectal ),, Latin , and Ancient Greek.

Conjunction

 * 1) As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
 * 2) Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
 * 3) * c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the, volume I, OCLC 374760 , page 11:
 * Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke caste þher-to Safroun an Salt
 * 1) Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
 * 2) Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
 * 3) * 2007: Jimmy Carr, 8 out of 10 Cats, 13th day of July episode
 * Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.
 * 1)  Yet; but.
 * 2) Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens ; connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
 * 3) * 1956,, (title):
 * The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
 * 1)  Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
 * 2) * 1939, Langley, Ryerson & Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (screenplay):
 * Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
 * 1) Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
 * 2) Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
 * 3) Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
 * 4)  Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after,  and.
 * 5) Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
 * 6) Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
 * 7)  Expressing a condition.
 * 8)  If; provided that.
 * 9)  As if, as though.
 * 10)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1) * 1939, Langley, Ryerson & Woolf, The Wizard of Oz (screenplay):
 * Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
 * 1) Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
 * 2) Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
 * 3) Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
 * 4)  Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after,  and.
 * 5) Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
 * 6) Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
 * 7)  Expressing a condition.
 * 8)  If; provided that.
 * 9)  As if, as though.
 * 10)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after,  and.
 * 2) Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
 * 3) Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
 * 4)  Expressing a condition.
 * 5)  If; provided that.
 * 6)  As if, as though.
 * 7)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1) Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
 * 2)  Expressing a condition.
 * 3)  If; provided that.
 * 4)  As if, as though.
 * 5)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  As if, as though.
 * 2)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  As if, as though.
 * 2)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.
 * 1)  Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.

Usage notes
Beginning a sentence with or other coordinating conjunctions is considered incorrect by classical grammarians arguing that a coordinating conjunction at the start of a sentence has nothing to connect, but use of the word in this way is very common. The practice will be found in literature from Anglo-Saxon times onwards, especially as an aid to continuity in narrative and dialogue. The OED provides examples from the 9th century to the 19th century, including one from Shakespeare’s King John: “Arthur. Must you with hot Irons, burne out both mine eyes? Hubert. Young boy, I must. Arthur. And will you? Hubert. And I will.” It is also used for other rhetorical purposes, especially to denote surprise

"(O John! and you have seen him! And are you really going?—1884 in OED)"

and sometimes just to introduce an improvised afterthought

"(I’m going to swim. And don’t you dare watch—G. Butler, 1983)"

It is, however, poor style to separate short statements into separate sentences when no special effect is needed: I opened the door and I looked into the room (not *I opened the door. And I looked into the room). Combining sentences or starting with in addition or moreover is preferred in formal writing.

is often omitted for contextual effects of various kinds, especially between sequences of descriptive adjectives which can be separated by commas or simply by spaces

"(The teeming jerrybuilt dun-coloured traffic-ridden deafening city—Penelope Lively, 1987)"

is a well-established tag added to the end of a statement, as in

"Isn’t it amazing? He has a Ph.D. and all—J. Shute, 1992"

With the nominal meaning “also, besides, in addition”, the use has origins in dialect, as can be seen from the material from many regions given in the English Dialect Dictionary (often written in special ways, e.g.,, , ). In many of the examples it seems to lack any perceptible lexical meaning and to be just a rhythmical device to eke out a sentence.

Noun

 * 1)  In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.

Etymology 2
From, from and ; both from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to.

Noun

 * 1)  Breath.
 * 2)  ; steam fog.

Etymology 3
From, from and ; both from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See above.

Verb

 * 1)  To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) oath

Etymology
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The Germanic noun derives from, which is also the source of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) duck
 * 2) canard

Etymology
From the root of. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) offering, gift
 * 2) alms, donation
 * 3) giftedness, talent
 * 4) act of giving

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to give

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from.

Conjunction

 * , then connects two elements of a sentence
 * 1) however, yet, but, though. while
 * 2) if, supposing that, whether.
 * 3)  As though, like, in a manner suggesting.
 * 1) however, yet, but, though. while
 * 2) if, supposing that, whether.
 * 3)  As though, like, in a manner suggesting.
 * 1) if, supposing that, whether.
 * 2)  As though, like, in a manner suggesting.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a duck
 * 2) canard (false or misleading report or story)

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a duck

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  breath, spirit

Etymology
From, probably from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) even; also

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology
From, from. The adverbial sense of this term is the original one, and it has an etymology independent of.

Pronoun

 * : in him, in it
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- in bélrai .i. is and atá gním tengad isind huiliu labramar-ni

Adverb

 * 1) there
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.


 * 1) then, in that case
 * "sga"
 * "sga"

- Is and didiu for·téit ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp anim  la spirut.

Usage notes

 * While and is relatively often written due to English influence, it is seldom pronounced as such, making way for.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a wild duck

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  hand