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See also: Ford, förd, forð, ford., and forð-

English

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A ford with a footbridge on New Road, Oxton, Nottinghamshire

Alternative forms

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  • foorth (obsolete, [14th century])

Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *per-
    Proto-Indo-European *-tus
    Proto-Indo-European *pértus
    Proto-Germanic *furduz
    Proto-West Germanic *furdu
    Old English ford
    English ford

    Inherited from Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

    Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).

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    Noun

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    ford (plural fords)

    1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
      Synonym: water-splash
    2. A stream; a current.

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    Verb

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    ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)

    A woman fording a river in Uganda (1)
    1. To cross a stream by walking through it.
      • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
        He named that place, for it was near her dwelling, and on the road between Balerynie and Heriotside, which fords the Sker Burn.
      • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain‎[1], Houghton Mifflin, pages 31–2:
        Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.
      • 1982, Nadine Gordimer, “A Hunting Accident”, in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, page 59:
        Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.
      • 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, [2]
        Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.
    2. (by extension) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
      • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
        I spent several days fording through dense jungle.
      • 2013 December 2, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, “The Antiman”, in Munyori Literary Journal‎[3]:
        I use my ample shoulders to ford through the crowd, ignoring a curse here, smothering boos here and there, and generally standing my ground in the face of the disapprovals of those I shove.

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    Old Cornish

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    Etymology

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    from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz

    Noun

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    ford

    1. path, way

    Old English

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”).

      Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, and Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.

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      Noun

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      ford m

      1. ford

      Declension

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      Strong u-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative ford forda
      accusative ford forda
      genitive forda forda
      dative forda fordum

      Strong a-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative ford fordas
      accusative ford fordas
      genitive fordes forda
      dative forde fordum

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      Descendants

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      • Middle English: ford, furd, foord
      • → Proto-Brythonic: *forð (“road”) (see there for further descendants)

      Welsh

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      Pronunciation

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      ford

      1. soft mutation of bord

      Mutation

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      Mutated forms of bord
      radical soft nasal aspirate
      bord ford mord unchanged

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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