needle – English noun declension

English noun forms of needle

Noun: needle
Singularneedle
Pluralneedles

Sample Sentences

  • The seamstress threaded the needle to sew on a button.
  • reusable needles
  • single-use needles
  • a compass needle
  • The needle on the fuel gauge pointed to empty.
  • "[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line was clear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work." [2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:]
  • Ziggy bought some diamond needles for his hi-fi phonograph.
  • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth. [1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:]
  • Both of these functions will look through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion of the string from the beginning of the needle to the end of the haystack. [2010, Peter MacIntyre, PHP: The Good Parts, page 39:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
6. Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₁tlom
7. Proto-Germanic *nēþlą
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Germanic *-ō
11. Proto-Germanic *nēþlō
12. Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu
13. Old English nǣdl
14. Middle English nedle
15. English needle
16. From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu, from Proto-Germanic *nēþlō, from pre-Germanic *neh₁-tleh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
17. Cognates
18. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Näddele (“sewing needle”), Dutch naald (“needle”), German Nadel (“needle, pin, crochet hook”), nähen (“sew”), Luxembourgish Nol (“needle”), Vilamovian nöłd (“needle”), Yiddish נאָדל (nodl, “needle, pin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish nål (“needle”), Elfdalian ną̊l (“needle”), Faroese, Icelandic nál (“needle”), Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰 (nēþla, “sewing needle”), Finnish neula (“needle”). Further related with Welsh nyddu, Latin nēre, Sanskrit स्नायति (snāyati, “wraps up, winds”). Related to snood. See: Middle English Nouns 'nedle', Dutch Nouns 'naald', German Nouns 'Nadel', Swedish Nouns 'nål', Icelandic Nouns 'nál', Gothic Nouns '𐌽𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰', Finnish Nouns 'neula', Latin Nouns 'nēre'.

Verbs referencing "needle"

English Nouns snood, German Nouns Nadel, Dutch Nouns naald, Finnish Nouns neula, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns nål.