definition of the word ac

Old English ac.

ac

1. (obsolete) But.

• IPA: /aːk/

āc (plural āc ihqueh, āquihqueh)

1. Who.

• acah
• aquin

• Karttunen, Frances (1983). An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, p. 1, Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Lockhart, James (2001). Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, p. 210, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

ac

1. and
2. same as atque (and also)
3. and besides
4. than
   • Ea res longe aliter, ac ratus erat, evenit.

     It happened differently than he had thought.

• ac is usually found in front of words beginning with consonants, rarely before vowels (compare: atque).

From Germanic *aik-. Cognate with Old Frisian ēk, Old Saxon ēk (Dutch eik), Old High German eih (German Eiche), Old Norse eik (Swedish ek).

• IPA: /ɑːk/

āc f. (plural ǣċ)

1. oak (wood or tree)
2. (poetic) an oaken ship
3. The runic character ᚪ (/a/)

• English: oak, ac-, aik-, oke-, oak-, -ock

From Germanic *ak-. Cognate with Old Saxon ac, Gothic 𐌰𐌺, Old High German oh.

• IPA: /ɑk/

ac

1. but

Latin acus

ac f. and m.

1. needle

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