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word **olú-t- (from an earlier Indo-European base *h2elut-), which originally meant 'golden or reddish colour'. Other Indo-European words related to this root include Old Indic arusá- ('reddish'; the r comes from an earlier l, *alu-sá-) and Old High German elo ('yellowy, pale yellow, reddish yellow, tawny'). The Indo-European word *olú-t- then came to refer specifically to ale because this is its colour, giving rise to both the Germanic word *alú-þ- and the Ossetic

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