wint

See also: Wint

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪnt/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: wind
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Verb

wint

1. inflection of winnen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wint, from Proto-West Germanic *wind.

Noun

wint m

1. wind (movement of air)
2. cardinal direction
3. air
4. smell, odour
5. wind, flatulence

Inflection

Strong masculine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	wint	winde
accusative	wint	winde
genitive	wints	winde
dative	winde	winden

Descendants

• Dutch: wind
  • Afrikaans: wind
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: wende
  • Negerhollands: wind, win, wen
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: went
  • → Aukan: winta
  • → Sranan Tongo: winti
• Limburgish: windj

Further reading

• “wint (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wint (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wind. Akin to Old Saxon wind, Old English wind, Old Norse vindr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds).

Noun

wint m (plural winti)

1. wind

Declension

Declension of wint (masculine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	wint	winti
accusative	wint	winti
genitive	wintes	winto
dative	winte	wintim, winten
instrumental	wintu	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: wint
  • Alemannic German:

    Italian Walser: winn, wend, wénn, wind

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: bint

    Mòcheno: bint

    Udinese: bint

    Viennese: Wind

  • German: Wind
  • Luxembourgish: Wand
  • Vilamovian: wynt
  • Yiddish: ווינט (vint)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

wint

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian винт (vint).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvint/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -int
• Syllabification: wint

Noun

wint m inan

1. (card games) Russian whist, vint

Declension

Declension of wint

	singular
nominative	wint
genitive	winta
dative	wintowi
accusative	wint
instrumental	wintem
locative	wincie
vocative	wincie

Further reading

• wint in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wint in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “wint”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna