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Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile.
2. (archaic, figuratively) Moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death.
3. (UK, dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
4. (UK, dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.

Verb

1. (UK, dialectal) to venom; sting
2. (UK, dialectal) to discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake

Têgeh

nêm

Hevwate

ichor

pus

yellow bile

Werger

صديد

قيح

pus

Eiter

πύον

pus

materia purulenta

pus

nêm

sanies

etter

pus

pus

pus

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈætə/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: atter

Ji Old English mîras hatiye girtin: āttor

Hevwate bi Ancient Greek: οἶδος

Hevwate bi skotî: attir

Hevwate bi skotî: atter

Hevwate bi Old Norse: eitr

Hevwate bi îzlendî: eitur

Hevwate bi ferî: eitur

Hevwate bi norwecî: eiter

Hevwate bi swêdî: etter

Hevwate bi danmarkî: edder

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch: Atter

Hevwate bi holendî: etter

Hevwate bi almanî: Eiter

In summary

From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”).
Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).