Noun: wode
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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When thei saw hir for wode so wilde Thei did lede hir ... With-oute the toun […]And stoned hir to dethe. (When they saw her rage so wild, They did lead her ... out the town … And stoned her to death.) [c. 1400, Laud Troy Book:]
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At cherche kan god […] yelde þe wyttes of þe wode.t [(Can we date this quote?), Dan Michel of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt:]
Nouns inflected like wode
contemplaunce,
giltines,
wordes of tocome,
busihead,
meritote,
aqua vite,
paradys,
Pendragon,
smokynge,
medkniche,
noblesse,
smattrynge,
fidelite,
tolysnysse,
unmanhood,
chierte,
cranage,
cronyng,
tolætenysse,
capcioun, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English wōd, from Proto-West Germanic *wōd, from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂tós.
Verbs referencing "wode"
English Nouns
wood, English Nouns
woad, English Nouns
woodwall.
Translations