windas

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch windas, ultimately from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

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Noun

windas f (plural windassen, diminutive windasje n)

1. windlass

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Middle English

Noun

windas

1. windlass

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “windas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

windas oblique singular, m (oblique plural windas, nominative singular windas, nominative plural windas)

1. winch

Descendants

• → English: windlass

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guindas)
• gindas on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (also listed under vindass)