wynd

English

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waɪnd/
• Rhymes: -aɪnd
• Homophone: wind (verb)

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Northumbria) A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alley

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

     Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.

   • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 637:

     He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.

   • 2010 July 10, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian:

     Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.

2. (Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.

   Synonyms: hayrick, haystack

   • 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

     This was then used as the base for the cocks of hay, or wyndes as we called them. […] A piece of hay with its ends firmly embedded in the base of the wynde was wound around the hay twine and knotted with it. The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same way, and this process was repeated crossways.

Anagrams

• W.D.N.Y.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wind, from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

Alternative forms

• wend, wende, wind, winde, wynde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːnd/, /wind/

Noun

wynd (plural wyndes)

1. wind

Derived terms

• wyndmylne

Descendants

• English: wind
• Scots: wind, win
• Yola: weend, wyeene

References

• “wīnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

wynd

1. Alternative form of wynden (“to wind”)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wəind/

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

1. alley, lane, wynd

Vilamovian

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Noun

wynd m

1. wind