winde

winde (countable and uncountable, plural windes)

1. Obsolete spelling of wind.
   • 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse‎^[1]:

     But he that laughed before at his fellow, said againe, Verily this tale is as true, as if a man would say that by sorcery and inchantment the floods might be inforced to run against their course, the seas to be immovable, the aire to lacke the blowing of windes, the Sunne to be restrained from his naturall race, the Moone to purge his skimme upon herbes and trees to serve for sorceries: the starres to be pulled from heaven, the day to be darkened and the dark night to continue still.

• Edwin, Wedin, Wendi, Widen, dwine, indew, widen, wined

winde

1. plural of wind

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪn.də/

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• Hyphenation: win‧de

From Middle Dutch winde. Equivalent to a deverbal from winden (“to wind”).

winde f (plural winden)

1. windlass
2. (botany) bindweed (Convolvulus or Calystegia)
   • 1933, Enkele bloemnamen in de Zuidnederlandsche dialecten, page 30:

     De winde is een dier planten, waarvan het loof, in casu de ranken, meer de aandacht trekt dan de bloemen.

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   • 2008, Romke van de Kaa, Alles kan wachten. Tuinieren op ontspannen wijze, Uitgeverij Contact (publ.).

     Tenminste – als ze zich niet met wortels van andere planten verweven hebben, want dan moet je alle planten uitgraven om de wortels van de winde te verwijderen.

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   Hypernym: windefamilie

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

winde

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of winden

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winde

1. inflection of winden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

winde

1. Alternative form of wynd

winde

1. Alternative form of wynde

winde

1. Alternative form of wynden (“to wind”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwin.de/

From Proto-West Germanic *windā, from Proto-Germanic *windǭ,

winde f

1. There are no direct attestations of this word in Old English, but exists in several derived compounds.

Weak:

• edwinde (“vortex, whirlpool”)
• wiþewinde (“withwind”)
• gearnwinde (“yarnwindle, reel”)
• wuduwinde (“woodbine”)
• berwinde (“bearbind”)
• næderwinde (“adderwort”)

winde

1. dative singular of wind