aband
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbænd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbænd/
- Rhymes: -ænd
Verb edit
aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
- (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X.[1], page 108:
- Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
And both of them men of renowmed might;
Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
Grew great, and got large portions of land,
That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aband”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
Anagrams edit
Middle Irish edit
Noun edit
aband f
- Alternative form of ab (“river”)
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
aband | unchanged | n-aband |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs.
Noun edit
āband m
Declension edit
Declension of āband (masculine a-stem)
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | āband | ābanda |
accusative | āband | ābanda |
genitive | ābandes | ābando |
dative | ābande | ābandum |
instrumental | ābandu | — |
Descendants edit
- Middle High German: ābent
References edit
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Old Saxon edit
Noun edit
āband m
- Alternative spelling of avand