Old English · noun
grund
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ɡrund/
- Syllables
- ɡrund (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- groundgndgroondgrunddepthsbottom
Meaning
-
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 -
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.
-
abyss, (in the plural) depths
of grundum
from the depths
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz.
Descendants
gnd, groond, ground, grund
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