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  1. conjunction Together with or along with; in addition to; as well as. Used to connect words, phrases, or clauses that have the same grammatical function in a construction.
  2. conjunction Added to; plus: Two and two makes four.
  3. conjunction Used to indicate result: Give the boy a chance, and he might surprise you.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see en in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English and, ant, an, sometimes a, from Anglo-Saxon and, ond, rarely end (in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English usually expressed by the abbrev. symbol or ligature], later & (modern &), for L. et, and), = Old Saxon endi, rarely en,= OFries. anda, ande, and, an, rarely ond, also ende, enda, end, en, modern Friesic an, än, en, in, enda, inde = Old Dutch onde, ende, Dutch en = Old High German anti, enti, inti, unta, unti, endi, indi, undi, Middle High German unde, und, unt, German und, and, = Icelandic enda, and if, in case that, even, even if, and then, and yet, and so (apparently the same word, with conditional or disjunctive force; the Scandinavian equivalent to ‘and’ is Icelandic auk = Swedish och, ock = Danish og = Anglo-Saxon eác, English eke; not found as conjunction in Gothic (Moesogothic), where the ordinary copula is jah), conjunction, orig. a preposition, Anglo-Saxon and, ond (rare in this form, but extremely common in the reduced form an, on, being thus merged with orig. an, on: see below), before, besides, with, = Old Saxon ant, unto, until, = OFries. anda, ande, and, an, also enda, ende, end, en, in, on, = Old High German ant = Gothic (Moesogothic) and, on, upon, unto, along, over, etc.; this preposition being also common as a prefix, Anglo-Saxon and-, an-, ond-, on- (see and-), and appearing also in the reduced form an, on (merged with orig. an, on = Gothic (Moesogothic) ana = Greek ἀνά, etc.: see on), and with a close vowel in Anglo-Saxon ōth (for *onth) = Old Saxon unt (also in comp. un-, as in unte, untō, untuo (= Middle English and English unto), and in untat, unthat for unt that) = OFries. und, ont, unto, = Old High German unt (in comp. *unze, unz), unto, = Icelandic unz, unnz, unst, undz, until, = Gothic (Moesogothic) und, unto, until, as far as, up to (also in comp. unte, until), most of these forms being also used conjunctionally. The Teutonic prepositions and prefixes containing a radical n tended to melt into one another both as to form and sense. There appear to have been orig. two forms of and, namely, (a) Anglo-Saxon and, ond, Old Saxon ant, Gothic (Moesogothic) and, anda-, Teutonic *anda-, and (b) Anglo-Saxon end, Old Saxon endi, etc., Teutonic *andi-, the latter being = Latin ante, before, = Greek ἀντί, against, = Sanskrit anti, over against, near, related with anta, end, = Gothic (Moesogothic) andeis = Anglo-Saxon ende, English end: see end, and cf. andiron. See and-, an-, on-, ante-, anti-, prefixes ult. identical. For the transition from the preposition and, before, besides, with, to the conjunction and, cf. the preposition with in such constructions as “The passengers, with all but three of the crew, were saved,” where and may be substituted for with. From the earliest Middle English period and has also existed in the reduced form an: see an.
 

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/ænd, unæccɛntɛd ənd: sɛɛ <ɪ>æn2/
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