ford

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

English

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Alternative forms

  • foorth (obsolete, [14th century])

Etymology

From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Cognate with English firth, fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
  2. A stream; a current.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      With water of the ford / Or of the clouds.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

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Verb

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

  1. To cross a stream using a ford.
    • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 31-2, [1]
      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, p. 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.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”). Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.

Pronunciation

Noun

ford m

  1. ford

Declension

Declension of ford (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative ford fordas
accusative ford fordas
genitive fordes forda
dative forda fordum

Descendants

  • Middle English: ford, furd, foord

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

ford

  1. Soft mutation of bord.
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