smith – English noun declension

English noun forms of smith

Noun: smith
Singularsmith
Pluralsmiths

Sample Sentences

  • The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining. [1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *smiþaz
3. Proto-West Germanic *smiþ
4. Old English smiþ
5. Middle English smyth
6. English smith
7. From Middle English smeth, smith, smiþ, smið, smyth, smythe, smyþ, smyþe, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-West Germanic *smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz (“smith”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, spread”).
8. Cognates
9. Cognate with Alemannic German Schmid, schméd, schmét, schmìd (“smith”), Bavarian schmidt, schmit, sghmiid (“smith”), Cimbrian smit, smitt (“smith”), Dutch smid (“smith”), German Schmied, Schmidt (“smith”), Low German Smidd, Smitt (“smith”), Luxembourgish Schmadd (“smith”), Mòcheno schmi' (“smith”), Vilamovian śmejt (“blacksmith”), Yiddish שמיד (shmid, “blacksmith, smith”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish smed (“smith”), Elfdalian smið (“smith”), Faroese and Icelandic smiður (“smith”), Gothic *𐍃𐌼𐌹𐌸𐌰 (*smiþa, “smith”) (whence 𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌰𐍃𐌼𐌹𐌸𐌰 (aizasmiþa, “coppersmith”)); also Greek σμίλη (smíli, “chisel”). See: Old English Nouns 'smiþ', Dutch Nouns 'smid', German Nouns 'Schmied', Greek Nouns 'σμίλη'.

Verbs referencing "smith"

Danish Nouns smed, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns smed, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns smed, Swedish Nouns smed.