Noun: ord
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Hē ġesēah ðā þæt hine ne mihte nān lǣċe ġehǣlan, and sette his swurdes ord tōġēanes his innoðe, and fēol him on uppon, þæt him þurhēode. (He saw then that no doctor could heal him, and set the point of his sword against his stomach, and fell upon it, so that it ran him through.)
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Þæs sweordes ord is swīðe sċearp. (The point of the sword is very sharp.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
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Seo eahteoðe leahter is superbia gehaten þæt is on ænglisc modigynss gecweden. Seo is ord and ende ælcere synne. Seo geworhte englas to atelicum deoflum... (The eighth sin is called Superbia that is called Pride, in English, which is the beginning and end of every sin; it made angels into horrible devils,...)
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Finnesburh Fragment, line 12 (... fight in the vanguard, be of [good] mood.)
Nouns inflected like ord
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“stab”).
2. Cognate with Middle Dutch ort (Dutch oord), Old High German ort (German Ort), Old Norse oddr (Icelandic oddur, Swedish udd, Danish od). See: Dutch Nouns '
oord', German Nouns '
Ort', Old Norse Nouns '
oddr', Icelandic Nouns '
oddur', Swedish Nouns '
udd', Danish Nouns '
od'.
Verbs referencing "ord"
English Nouns
odd, English Nouns
point, English Nouns
standard, English Nouns
ord, Middle English Nouns
ord, Old Norse Nouns
oddr.
Translations