wod
English
editNoun
editwod (countable and uncountable, plural wods)
- Obsolete form of wood.
- 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
- They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wt nales and hammers, that it moue not.
Anagrams
editMokilese
editNoun
editwod
- pulaka (swamp taro)
References
edit- Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977
Old English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wōdaz. Cognate with Old High German wuot, Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds).
Adjective
editwōd
- crazy, insane, mad
- "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 10, verse 21
- Sume cwǣdon, Ne synt nā þās wōdes mannes word. Cwyst þū mæġ wōd man blindra manna ēagan ontȳnan?
- Some said, these are not words of a mad man. Do you say a mad man of blind men can open eyes?
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 8:52
- Þā cwǣdon þā Iūdēas, "Nū wē witon þæt þū eart wōd. Ābrahām wæs dēad, and þā wītegan, and þū cwist, 'Ġif hwā mīn word ġehielt, ne biþ hē nǣfre dēad.'"
- Then the Jews said, "Now we know you're crazy. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, and you're saying, 'If anyone keeps my word, they will never die.'"
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Fifth Sunday in Lent"
- Twā bismerlīcu word hīe cwǣdon tō Criste. Ān is þæt hē wǣre Samaritānisċ, ōðer þæt hē dēofol on him hæfde—þæt wē cweðaþ on Englisċ be wōdum menn, "Þū eart wōd."
- They said two insulting things to Christ. One is that he was a Samaritan, the other that he was possessed by a demon—the same thing that we say in English about a crazy person, "You're crazy."
- "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 10, verse 21
- (esp. with dogs and other animals) rabid
- (rare) mad with anger, enraged
Declension
editDeclension of wōd — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | wōd | wōd | wōd |
Accusative | wōdne | wōde | wōd |
Genitive | wōdes | wōdre | wōdes |
Dative | wōdum | wōdre | wōdum |
Instrumental | wōde | wōdre | wōde |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | wōde | wōda, wōde | wōd |
Accusative | wōde | wōda, wōde | wōd |
Genitive | wōdra | wōdra | wōdra |
Dative | wōdum | wōdum | wōdum |
Instrumental | wōdum | wōdum | wōdum |
Declension of wōd — Weak
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Descendants
editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “wōd”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wód”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wōdaz. Derrived from adjective.
Noun
editwōd m
Declension
editDeclension of wod (strong a-stem)
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wód”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Etymology 3
editInflected form
Verb
editwōd
Tok Pisin
editEtymology
editNoun
editwod
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