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ford
English
Alternative forms
- foorth (obsolete, [14th century])
Etymology
From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian ???.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??d/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo(?)?d/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
ford (plural fords)
- A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
- A stream; a current.
- Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)
- To cross a stream using a ford.
- 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 31-2, [1]
- Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.
- 1982, Nadine Gordimer, "A Hunting Accident" in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, p. 59,
- Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.
- 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, [2]
- Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.
- 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 31-2, [1]
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- dorf
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”). Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ford/, [for?d]
Noun
ford m
- ford
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: ford, furd, foord
- English: ford
- Scots: furde, furd, fuird
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?rd/
Noun
ford
- Soft mutation of bord.
Mutation
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foud
English
Etymology
From Old Norse f?geti, cognate with German Vogt, from Latin vocatus, from vocare (“to call”).
Noun
foud (plural fouds)
- (Britain, Shetland and Orkney) A bailiff or magistrate.
- 1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series: Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul,
- From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish 'lawrightmen', who adjudicated and negotiated the collection of customary taxes and fines on behalf of the local population.
- 1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series: Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul,
Anagrams
- douf
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