Noun: hand
Gender: f
Genitive
| Singular | handa |
| Plural | handa |
Dative
| Singular | handa |
| Plural | handum |
Sample Sentences
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Oft him ānhaga · āre gebīdeð,
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Metudes miltse, · þēah þe hē mōdċeariġ
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ġeond lagulāde · longe sċeolde
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hrēran mid hondum · hrīmċealde sǣ,
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wadan wræclāstas. · Wyrd bið ful ārǣd. (A loner oft waits a grace for himself,
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Creator's mercy, even if he is sorrowful,
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through a sea-way he should for long
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stir the frost-cold sea with hands,
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travel paths of exile. Fate is well stalwart.) [10th century, The Wanderer:]
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare fōr Odda Rōmana cāsere tō Grēclande, ⁊ þā ġemette hē þāra Sarcena myċele fyrde cuman upp of sǣ, ⁊ woldon þā faran on hergoð on þæt Crīstene folc; ⁊ þā ġefeaht þā cāsere wið hī. ⁊ þǣr wæs myċel wæl ġeslæġen on ġehwæþere hand, ⁊ sē cāsere āhte wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ hwæðere hē þǣr wæs miċċlum ġeswenced, ǣr hē þanon hwurfe, ⁊ þā hē hāmweard fōr. ⁊ hē wæs Lēodulfes sunu æþelinges, ⁊ sē Lēodulf wæs þǣs ealdan Oddan sunu, ⁊ Ēadweardes cynginges dohtor sunu. (And in the same year, Emperor Otto of Rome went to Greece, and there he encountered a great army of Saracens who had come up from the sea, and intended to then go make war against the Christian people; and so the emperor then fought against them. There was great slaughter on each side, and the emperor took control of the battlefield. Nevertheless, he was very fatigued, and so thence turned around and traveled towards home. He was the son of Prince Leodulf, and Leodulf was son of the elder Otto, and the son of King Edward's daughter.)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz. Cognate with Old Frisian hond, Old Saxon hand, Old High German hant, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus). See: Old Norse Nouns '
hǫnd', Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "hand"
English Nouns
hand, Middle English Nouns
hond, Old Norse Nouns
hǫnd.
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