different between gud vs gaud

English

Adjective

gud

1. Nonstandard spelling of good.

Usage notes

May be used by advocates of English spelling reform.

Anagrams

• UDG, dug

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse guð (“god”), from Proto-Germanic *gud?. Cognate with English god and German Gott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???uð]
• Rhymes: -uð

Noun

gud c (singular definite guden, plural indefinite guder)

1. (religion) god, God (deity, supernatural being)
2. a mild swear word

Declension

Usage notes

• As the name of the sole deity in monotheistic religion, it is used without the article and usually written with a capital G.

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English good.

Adjective

gud

1. good

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse goð, guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Noun

gud m (definite singular guden, indefinite plural guder, definite plural gudene)

1. god

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse goð, guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós. Akin to English god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/

Noun

gud m (definite singular guden, indefinite plural gudar, definite plural gudane)

1. god

Derived terms

References

• “gud” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse guð, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

gud c (feminine: gudinna)

1. a god

Declension

Derived terms

References

• gud in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dug

Volapük

Etymology

From English good.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ud/, [?ud]

Noun

gud

1. goodness

Declension

Derived terms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English god, from Old English god, from Proto-West Germanic *god.

Noun

gud

1. god

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Homophones: god (in accents with the cot-caught merger), gored (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

Noun

gaud (plural gauds)

1. a cheap showy trinket
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 1926)

     Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.

2. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
3. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice

Translations

Related terms

• gaudy

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Etymology 2

Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

1. To sport or keep festival.
   • 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

     gauding with his familiars

Anagrams

• Guad.

Ilocano

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

gaud

1. paddle; oar