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pac

Highland Popoluca

Etymology 1

From Proto-Zoque *pahk, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *pahk.

Noun

pac

  1. bone

Derived terms

  • cobacpac
  • paga?jo?m

Etymology 2

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

pac

  1. seed

Derived terms

  • pag??y

References

  • Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 93

Middle English

Noun

pac

  1. Alternative form of pak

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pat?s/

Etymology 1

Cognate with Ukrainian ????? (pacjuk).

Noun

pac m anim

  1. (dialectal) A large rat (rodent).
Declension

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

pac

  1. (Cieszyn Silesia) plunk, thud, flump (sound)
    Synonym: b?c

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pac f

  1. genitive plural of paca

Further reading

  • pac in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
  • pac in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Welsh

Etymology

Middle English packe

Noun

pac m (plural paciau or pacau)

  1. a pack, a bundle, a deck (of cards)
  2. a pack (of animals), a gang
  3. a pack (in rugby)

Derived terms

  • pecyn

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pac”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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herd

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??d/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /h?d/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)d
  • Homophone: heard

Etymology 1

From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (herd, flock; keeping, care, custody), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (herd), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (file, row, herd). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (nest) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

  1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
    • 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
      The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
  2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
    • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
      Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
  3. (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
    • 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
      You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
Derived terms
  • herd immunity
  • herd instinct
Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

  1. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
    Sheep herd on many hills.
  2. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
  3. (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
  4. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
    • I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
      One of the number.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.

Noun

herd (plural herds)

  1. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
    • 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
      Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Verb

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

  1. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  2. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
  3. (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
Translations

See also

  • Appendix:English collective nouns
  • drove
  • gather
  • muster
  • round up
  • ride herd on

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

herd

  1. imperative of herde

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.

Noun

herd m

  1. hearth

Descendants

  • Middle High German: hert
    • German: Herd
    • Luxembourgish: Häerd

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