Old English · adjective
sid
Normalised sīd
- Part of speech
- adjective
- IPA
- /siːd/
- Syllables
- siːd (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- largevastbroadwidespacious
Meaning
-
wide, spacious, vast, great, large, broad
...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
Declension
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | sīd | sīd | sīd |
| Accusative | sīdne | sīde | sīd |
| Genitive | sīdes | sīdre | sīdes |
| Dative | sīdum | sīdre | sīdum |
| Instrumental | sīde | sīdre | sīde |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | sīde | sīdasīde | sīd |
| Accusative | sīde | sīdasīde | sīd |
| Genitive | sīdra | sīdra | sīdra |
| Dative | sīdum | sīdum | sīdum |
| Instrumental | sīdum | sīdum | sīdum |
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | |||
| Nominative | sīda | sīde | sīde |
| Accusative | sīdan | sīdan | sīde |
| Genitive | sīdan | sīdan | sīdan |
| Dative | sīdan | sīdan | sīdan |
| Instrumental | sīdan | sīdan | sīdan |
| Plural | |||
| Nominative | sīdan | sīdan | sīdan |
| Accusative | sīdan | sīdan | sīdan |
| Genitive | sīdrasīdena | sīdrasīdena | sīdrasīdena |
| Dative | sīdum | sīdum | sīdum |
| Instrumental | sīdum | sīdum | sīdum |
All forms (10)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, long, ample”). Cognate with Old Norse síðr (Swedish sid).
Descendants
side
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