Onde
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 envy; hatred; malice obsolete, uncountable, usually
"Wrathe, yre, and onde — The Romaunt of the Rose."
- 2 breath Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
- 1 To breathe; breathe on. dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
Example
More examples"Wrathe, yre, and onde — The Romaunt of the Rose."
Etymology
From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Scots aynd, eind, end (“breath”), German Ahnd, And (“pain, anguish”), Danish ånd, ånde (“breath, spirit”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Latin anima (“breath, spirit”). More at animal.
From Middle English onden (Northern dialect ande), from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”).
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