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Old English · noun

stund

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/stund/
Syllables
stund (1 syllable)
Modern English
stoundforthwithtimewhile

stund1 · adverb

Senses

  1. at once, forthwith, immediately

    Hē word stunde āhōf ― He brought up the word forthwith.

stund2 · noun · feminine

Senses

  1. time, while

    Nō iċ þa stunde bemearn, ne for wunde weōp ― At the time, I mourned not, nor for the wounded wept. (Exon. Th. 499, 12; Rä. 88, 14)

  2. a period of time, an hour

Declension · strong ō-stem

Declension of stund
SingularPlural
Nominative stundstundastunde
Accusative stundestundastunde
Genitive stundestunda
Dative stundestundum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”). Cognate with Old Saxon stunda (Dutch stonde), Old High German stunta (German Stunde), Old Norse stund (Swedish stund).

Descendants

stound

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