Noun: rod
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | rōd |
| Plural | rōda; rōde |
Accusative
| Singular | rōde |
| Plural | rōda; rōde |
Sample Sentences
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he munegeð uſ an oðer rode to berene...fleiſeſ lenſing. (He [God] exhorts us to bear another cross...leanness of flesh.) [c. 1200 AD, “Sermon XV”, in The Lambeth Homilies, page 113 (f. 55r), lines 24–25/27:]
Nouns inflected like rod
rod,
brod,
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rōdō. Cognate with Old Frisian rōd, Old Saxon rōda, Dutch roede (“rod”), Old High German ruota (German Rute), Old Norse róða (“rod, cross”) (Danish rode (“gauge, rod”)). See: Dutch Nouns '
roede', German Nouns '
Rute', Old Norse Nouns '
róða', Danish Nouns '
rode'.
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