woodwind

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *dwi-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wéydʰ(h₁)us

Proto-Germanic *widuz

Proto-West Germanic *widu

Old English widu

Old English wudu

Middle English wode

English wood

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts

Proto-Germanic *windaz

Proto-West Germanic *wind

Old English wind

Middle English wynd

English wind

English woodwind

From wood + wind.

woodwind (plural woodwinds)

(music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
- 2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
  The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.
- 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 June 2022:
  The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.

musical instrument