Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

vad

  1. genitive plural of vada

Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (shallow water, ford), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

vad n (singular definite vadet, plural indefinite vad)

  1. (rare) ford (a crossing)
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Synonyms edit
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Etymology 2 edit

See vade (to wade).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /vaːd/, [væːˀð]

Verb edit

vad

  1. imperative of vade

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wamta (forest).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒd]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒd

Adjective edit

vad (comparative vadabb, superlative legvadabb)

  1. wild, untamed
  2. uncontrolled, unregulated

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative vad vadak
accusative vadat vadakat
dative vadnak vadaknak
instrumental vaddal vadakkal
causal-final vadért vadakért
translative vaddá vadakká
terminative vadig vadakig
essive-formal vadként vadakként
essive-modal
inessive vadban vadakban
superessive vadon vadakon
adessive vadnál vadaknál
illative vadba vadakba
sublative vadra vadakra
allative vadhoz vadakhoz
elative vadból vadakból
delative vadról vadakról
ablative vadtól vadaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
vadé vadaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
vadéi vadakéi

Antonyms edit

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Noun edit

vad (plural vadak)

  1. game (wild animal)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative vad vadak
accusative vadat vadakat
dative vadnak vadaknak
instrumental vaddal vadakkal
causal-final vadért vadakért
translative vaddá vadakká
terminative vadig vadakig
essive-formal vadként vadakként
essive-modal
inessive vadban vadakban
superessive vadon vadakon
adessive vadnál vadaknál
illative vadba vadakba
sublative vadra vadakra
allative vadhoz vadakhoz
elative vadból vadakból
delative vadról vadakról
ablative vadtól vadaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
vadé vadaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
vadéi vadakéi
Possessive forms of vad
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. vadam vadjaim
2nd person sing. vadad vadjaid
3rd person sing. vadja vadjai
1st person plural vadunk vadjaink
2nd person plural vadatok vadjaitok
3rd person plural vadjuk vadjaik

Derived terms edit

Compound words

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #1114 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ vad in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • vad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Verb edit

vad

  1. imperative of vade

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin vadum (shallow, ford), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

vad n (plural vaduri)

  1. ford

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Swedish edit

Alternative forms edit

  • hvad (pre-1906 spelling)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /vɑːd/, [vɒ̜ːd̪], (etymology 1 also) /vɑː/
  • (file)

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Swedish hvat, hvadh, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Closely related to German was and English what and cognates in other languages in the branch of Germanic languages. Other IE cognates are Latin qui, quae, quod and the derived words of its successors in the family of Romance languages.

Pronoun edit

vad n

  1. what

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Swedish vaþ, væþ, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Cognate with Old English wedd.

Noun edit

vad n

  1. bet, wager
Declension edit
Declension of vad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vad vadet vad vaden
Genitive vads vadets vads vadens

Etymology 3 edit

From Old Swedish vaþ, from Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

Noun edit

vad n

  1. a ford, a place for wading, short for vadställe
Declension edit
Declension of vad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vad vadet vad vaden
Genitive vads vadets vads vadens

Etymology 4 edit

Shortening (ca. 1800) of earlier vada (comparable to färg from färga). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waþwô. The form may to some degree continue Old Swedish vaþve, from Old Norse vǫðvi, but was probably influenced by cognate Middle Low German wāde and/or modern German Wade.[1]

Noun edit

vad c

  1. (anatomy) calf; the back side of the lower part of the leg.
Declension edit
Declension of vad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vad vaden vader vaderna
Genitive vads vadens vaders vadernas
Derived terms edit

Etymology 5 edit

From Old Norse vaðr “fishing line,” from Proto-Germanic *wadiz. Compare Old English wadu “dragnet”, Lithuanian bradìnė, Proto-Slavic *brodьnь id.

Noun edit

vad c

  1. a trawl
Declension edit
Declension of vad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vad vaden vadar vadarna
Genitive vads vadens vadars vadarnas

References edit

  1. ^ vad 1 in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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