nod
Translingual
editSymbol
editnod
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”).[1] Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation, New Zealand) IPA(key): /nɒd/ /nɒːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /nɑd/
- (General Australian, Estuary English, Wales) IPA(key): /nɔd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd, -ɑd, -ɔd
- Homophone: gnawed (cot–caught merger)
Verb
editnod (third-person singular simple present nods, present participle nodding, simple past and past participle nodded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- (transitive, intransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- (transitive, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
- 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:
- By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
- 1819, William Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm:
- Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by.
- (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
- (transitive) To signify by a nod.
- They nodded their assent.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- Even Homer nods.
- (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
- Jones nods the ball back to his goalkeeper.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
- With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
- March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
- Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
- March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
- (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
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Noun
editnod (plural nods)
- An instance of inclining the head up and down, as to indicate agreement, or as a cursory greeting.
- A reference or allusion to something.
- 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2]:
- Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937.
- A nomination.
- For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod.
- (figurative) Approval.
- The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.
- 1964 August, “News and Comment: One main line to Scotland?”, in Modern Railways, page 86:
- Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow?
- A state of half-consciousness; stupor.
- 1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:
- Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.
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References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “nod”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
editAromanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin nōdus. Compare Daco-Romanian nod.
Noun
editnod
Etymology 2
editFrom Latin nōdō. Compare Daco-Romanian înnoda, înnod (archaic noda).
Alternative forms
editVerb
editnod first-singular present indicative (past participle nudatã)
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editIrish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish not, from Latin nota. Doublet of nóta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnod m (genitive singular noid, nominative plural noda)
- scribal contraction, abbreviation
- hint (clue; tacit suggestion)
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nod”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “not, nod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Northern Kurdish
editNumeral
editnod
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editnod n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural nod, definite plural noda)
Old Saxon
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *naudi.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnōd f
Descendants
editRomanian
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin nōdus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnod n (plural noduri)
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editWelsh
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Welsh not, from Proto-Brythonic *nod, from Latin nota.[1] Cognate with Cornish nos, Old Breton not, Old Irish not, Irish nod.
Noun
editnod m (plural nodau, not mutable)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from English node, from Latin nōdus.
Noun
editnod m (plural nodau or nodion, not mutable)
- (botany) leaf node
- (medicine) node
- Synonym: oddf
- (geometry, graph theory) node
- (physics) node
- (astronomy) node
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editnod
- Nasal mutation of dod.
References
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