different between spade vs slade

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spe?d/
• Homophone: spayed
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English spade, from Old English spada, spade, spadu (“spade”), from Proto-Germanic *spad?, *spadô, *spad? (“spade”). Cognate with Dutch spade, Old Frisian spada, Old Saxon spado, German Spaten, Hunsrik Spaad. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sph?-d?-, whence also Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”), Hittite [script needed] (išpatar, “spear”), Persian ????? (sop?r, “plow”), Northern Luri ??????? (asp?r, “diging”) and Central Kurdish ??????? (esper), ???????? (espere, “cross-piece on shaft of spade to take pressure of foot”).

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'

2. A playing card marked with the symbol ?.

3. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
4. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Derived terms

• call a spade a spade
• in spades
• spadefoot
• spadeful
• spadelike
• spade mashie
• spadework
• spadeworker

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: spaid
• ? Fiji Hindi: sipi

Translations

Verb

spade (third-person singular simple present spades, present participle spading, simple past and past participle spaded)

1. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.

Derived terms

• spader

References

Etymology 2

Compare spay, noun, and spado.

Alternative forms

• spaid
• spayade

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. A hart or stag three years old.
2. A castrated man or animal.

Anagrams

• adeps, apsed, paeds, pedas

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spa?d?/

Alternative forms

• spa

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.

Noun

spade m (plural spaden or spades)

1. spade

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch spâde, from Old Dutch *sp?di, from Proto-Germanic *sp?diz (“late”).

Adjective

spade (comparative spader, superlative spaadst)

1. (archaic) late

Inflection

Synonyms

• laat

References

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?de/, [?s?p?de?]
• Rhymes: -?de
• Syllabification: spa?de

Noun

spade

1. (military slang) field cook

   Synonym: sotilaskeittäjä

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “broad blade”).

Noun

spade f (plural spadis)

1. sword

Italian

Noun

spade f

1. plural of spada

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German spade and Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spader, definite plural spadene)

1. a spade (tool)

   kalle en spade for en spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   tre spader jord - three spadefuls of earth

References

• “spade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, jarnspaði, from Middle Low German spade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²sp???/, /²sp??d?/

Noun

spade m (definite singular spaden, indefinite plural spadar, definite plural spadane)

1. a spade, shovel (tool)

   kalle ein spade for ein spade - call a spade a spade

2. a spadeful

   ein spade sand - a spadeful of sand

Verb

spade (present tense spader, past tense spadde, past participle spadd or spadt, present participle spadande, imperative spad)

1. Alternative form of spa

References

• “spade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spad

Etymology

From Old English spadu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spa?d(?)/

Noun

spade (plural spades)

1. tool for digging, shovel

Descendants

• English: spade
• Scots: spade, spaid
• Yola: spaade

References

• “sp?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse spaði, from Middle Low German spade, from Proto-Germanic *spad?, from Proto-Indo-European *sph?-d?-.

Noun

spade c

1. a spade (tool)

Declension

Related terms

• spada
• spader
• spadformad
• spadhandtag
• spadharv
• spadtag
• spadvända
• spadvändning

References

• spade in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sle?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-Germanic *slad? (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladan? (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

   • Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 222[1]:

     The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades,

     And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)

     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

2. (obsolete) The sole of a plough.

Etymology 2

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. A spade for digging peat.

Anagrams

• Dales, Delas, dales, deals, desal, lades, lased, leads, seal'd

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slad?]

Noun

slade

1. vocative singular of slad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

slade (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of slad