Noun: tinder
| Singular | tinder |
| Plural | tinders |
Sample Sentences
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Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […] [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 311, line 157:]
Nouns inflected like tinder
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind. See: Middle English Nouns '
tinder', Old English Nouns '
tynder', Dutch Nouns '
tonder', German Nouns '
Zunder'.
Verbs referencing "tinder"
German Nouns
Zunder, German Nouns
Zünder, Gothic Nouns
𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹.