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Old English · noun

grund

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ɡrund/
Syllables
ɡrund (1 syllable)
Modern English
groundgndgroondgrunddepthsbottom

Meaning

  1. ground

    ...And ǣrest āmet ufan tō grunde and hū sīd sē swarta ēðm sēo.

    ...and first measure from above to its ground, how wide the black vapour is.

    Caedmon's metrical paraphrase
  2. bottom, foundation

    Ǣlċ sǣ, þēah hēo dēop sīe, hæfþ grund on þǣre eorðan.

    Every sea, no matter how deep, has a bottom in the Earth.

  3. abyss, (in the plural) depths

    of grundum

    from the depths

Declension

Declension of grund
SingularPlural
Nominative grundgrundas
Accusative grundgrundas
Genitive grundesgrunda
Dative grundegrundum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

Descendants

gnd, groond, ground, grund

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