> Further, sentence (or clause) initial "and" can means if/as though, also existing in other Germanic languages Does this exist in English? An can mean "if" -

> Further, sentence (or clause) initial "and" can means if/as though, also existing in other Germanic languages Does this exist in English? An can mean "if" - not in the modern language, that's not a possibility at all, but in archaic texts - and this an does apparently derive from the word and, but I've never seen and itself used that way.