Pine

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  • Pine - to feel nostalgic desire; grief or mourning.
  • German Pein: suffering
  • the letters of the Irish alphabet (and of the Ogham alphabet which preceded it) were named after trees; the first letter "a" comes from ailm, pine. (Cf. Elms leap where askes lay)