Noun: wudu
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Laws of King Ine
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Ðonne mon bēam on wuda forbǣrne, ⁊ weorðe yppe on þone ðe hit dȳde, ġielde hē fulwīte: ġeselle LX sċill., forþamþe fȳr bið þēof. (If a man burns up a tree in a forest, and it becomes known who did it, he shall pay a full fine: he shall pay sixty shillings, for fire is a thief.)
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Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā reðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas. (Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping worms, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]
Nouns inflected like wudu
dohtorsunu,
sweostorsunu,
campwudu,
brimwudu,
meodu,
bregu,
heaþu,
wiodu,
seodu,
hornungsunu,
furhwudu,
unsidu,
sunsunu,
duru,
manu,
magu,
medu,
wudu,
sunu,
sidu, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Assimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).
2. Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd. See: Old Norse Nouns '
viðr'.
Verbs referencing "wudu"
English Nouns
wood, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
ved, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
ved, Irish Nouns
fiodh.
Translations