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wod
wod
Old English
Alternative forms
Verb
wōd
- First- and third-person preterite singular of wadan — to go, move, stride, advance; wade, traverse, pervade
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (compare Middle Dutch woet > Dutch woede, Old High German wuot > German Wut (“fury”), Old Norse óðr, Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌸𐍃 (woþs, “demonically possessed”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t-ós, from *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”) (compare Latin vātēs (“seer, prophet”), Old Irish fáith (“seer”), Welsh gwawd (“song”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /woːd/
Noun
wōd f
Adjective
wōd
- insane, mad, crazy, rabid, wild, raging, senseless, blasphemous
- Ðū eart wōd! — You're insane!
- mad with anger, enraged
- Hē suwode ǣfre swilce hē ne gefrēdde heora swingla nāteshwōn, and hī þæs þe wōddran wǣron him tōgeānes. — He was silent thereafter as though he didn't feel the the blows at all, and they were enraged with him.
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | wōda | wōde | wōde | wōdan | nom. | wōd | wōde | wōd | wōda, -e | ||||
| accusative | wōdan | wōde | wōdan | acc. | wōdne | wōd | wōde | wōde | wōd | wōda, -e | |||
| genitive | wōdan | wōdra, wōdena | gen. | wōdes | wōdes | wōdre | wōdra | ||||||
| dative | wōdan | wōdum | dat. | wōdum | wōdum | wōdre | wōdum | ||||||
| instrumental | wōde | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", wod et al.
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.). wod. Retrieved December 9, 2011