Wand

See also: wand and Wånd

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from Old English wand (“mole”).
• Borrowed from German Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from Middle High German gewant (“cloth, garment”) (representing modern Gewand (“garment”)).
• Borrowed from Dutch Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from Middle Dutch want (“glove”).

Proper noun

Wand (plural Wands)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wand is the 28049^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 854 individuals. Wand is most common among White (84.19%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wand”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Dawn, Dwan, dawn

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Wank (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects)

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German *wand, northern variant of want. For the phonetic development compare Hand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋant/

Noun

Wand f (plural Wänn or Wäng, diminutive Wändche)

1. (many dialects) wall

Usage notes

• The plural Wänn is used in Moselle Franconian and some southern dialects of Ripuarian. The form Wäng is used in many Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“fence, wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; bend; wind; twist; braid; weave”). Cognate with English wand although developing a completely distinct meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vant/, [vant], [ʋant]
• Rhymes: -ant

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Noun

Wand f (genitive Wand, plural Wände)

1. wall, partition
2. vertical face of a precipice, any large vertical surface

Usage notes

• The words Wand and Mauer are often but not always interchangeable. Even when they are synonymous, there is sometimes a preference for one of them:

• Wand is predominant for walls that are not made of stone, concrete, or the like. Mauer usually implies masonry.
• With stone walls, only Mauer is commonly used for freestanding ones.
• Both words are used for the walls of buildings. However, Wand is the normal choice for when one refers to them as seen from the inside (for example, a painting is typically said to hang an der Wand, "on the wall", rather than an der Mauer).

Declension

Declension of Wand [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Wand	die	Wände
genitive	einer	der	Wand	der	Wände
dative	einer	der	Wand	den	Wänden
accusative	eine	die	Wand	die	Wände

Derived terms

compound nouns

• Außenwand
• Bergwand
• Felswand
• Gewitterwand
• Hauswand
• Innenwand
• Leinwand
• Magenwand
• Pinnwand
• Plakatwand
• Trennwand
• Wandbehang
• Wandfarbe
• Wandgemälde
• Wandteppich
• Wanduhr
• Zellwand
• Zimmerwand

• an die Wand stellen
• den Teufel an die Wand malen
• mit dem Kopf durch die Wand
• Pudding an die Wand nageln
• vier Wände

Related terms

• Wanze

Descendants

• → Esperanto: vando

Further reading

• “Wand”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Wand” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Wand” in Duden online
• Wand on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German want.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vant/

Noun

Wand f (plural Wend)

1. wall

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Wand”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vant/, [vɑnt]
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Etymology 1

From Middle High German and Old High German wint.

Noun

Wand m (plural Wënn or Wanden)

1. wind

Derived terms

• Wandmillen

Etymology 2

From Middle High German and Old High German want.

Noun

Wand f (plural Wänn)

1. (interior) wall

Derived terms

• Wandauer
• Wandschaf
• Wandteppech

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German want. Compare German Wand, Dutch wand, English wand.

Noun

Wand f (plural Wend)

1. interior wall