erchan

Etymology
Apparently from, thus cognate with and 🇨🇬 (see , ). An archaic Germanic word from the sacral sphere, its original meaning is difficult to reconstruct as it belonged to the pagan religious vocabulary obscured after Christianization.

Pokorny (1959) tentatively groups the word with (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), but 🇨🇬 may also be an early loan of ; compare Ulfilan  for.

Adjective

 * 1) sublime, chief, special, egregious, genuine, true (?)
 * 2) * der erchano sangheri (=egregius psaltes, Isaiah 4:2)
 * 3) * ercna euua (=certa lege Isaiah 2:1)
 * 4) * allero specierum erchenosta (=speciem specialissimam)
 * 5) *  Also ih tes mennisken boteh einen toten mennisken heizo, nals nicht erchenen mennisken  (Notker trans. Boethius 5 = Nam uti cadauer hominem mortuum dixeris, simpliciter uero hominem appellare non possis "For though you might call a cadaver 'a dead man', you cannot just simply call it 'a man' [viz. it is not genuinely a man].")