Noun: wind
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | wind |
| Plural | windas |
Genitive
| Singular | windes |
| Plural | winda |
Dative
| Singular | winde |
| Plural | windum |
Accusative
| Singular | wind |
| Plural | windas |
Sample Sentences
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Iċ eom līġbysiġ, lāce mid winde, bewunden mid wuldre, wedre ġesomnad, fūs forðweġes, fȳre ġemelted, bearu blōwende, byrnende glēd. (I am busy with fire, sway with wind, wrapped with worship, gathered in good weather, ready to go forward, melted by fire, a blooming grove, a burning ember.) [10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 30:]
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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ðā Drihten ārǣrde miċelne wind, and sē ġelǣhte ealne þone līġ, and ābǣr hine tō ðǣs cyninges botle, swā þæt him ne belǣfde nān þing unforburnen, and hē sylf earfoðlīċe þām fȳre ætbærst. (The Lord rose up a great wind, and it caught all the flame, and bore it to the king's dwelling, so that nothing unburnt to him remained, and he himself escaped from the fire with difficulty.)
Nouns inflected like wind
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *wind.
2. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian wind, Old Saxon wind, Dutch wind, Old High German wint (German Wind), Old Norse vindr (Swedish vind), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin ventus (French vent), Welsh gwynt, Tocharian A want, Tocharian B yente. See: Dutch Nouns '
wind', German Nouns '
Wind', Old Norse Nouns '
vindr', Swedish Nouns '
vind', Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃', Latin Nouns '
ventus', French Nouns '
vent'.
Verbs referencing "wind"
English Nouns
wind, Old Norse Nouns
vindr, Middle English Nouns
wynd, Gothic Nouns
𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃.
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