stund

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).

Cognate with Old Saxon stunda (Dutch stonde), Old High German stunta (German Stunde), Old Norse stund (Swedish stund).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stund/

Noun

stund f (nominative plural stunda or stunde)

1. time, while
   • Nō iċ þa stunde bemearn, ne for wunde weōp ― At the time, I mourned not, nor for the wounded wept. (Exon. Th. 499, 12; Rä. 88, 14)
2. a period of time, an hour ^[1]

Adverb

stund

1. at once, forthwith, immediately
   • Hē word stunde āhōf ― He brought up the word forthwith.

References

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”). Compare Old English stund, Old Frisian stunde, Old Saxon stunda, Old High German stunta, stunt, Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*stunda) (> Catalan estona (“time, while”)).

Noun

stund f

1. an undetermined amount of time, a while

   um stund ― for a while

2. hour

   í degi dægr tvau, í dægri stundir tólf ― in a day are two half-days, in a half-day twelve hours

3. (grammar) a mora, a unit of time used in measuring syllable length

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German stund／stunde.

Noun

stund m ?

1. hour

References

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “brado”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 778
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “brado”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 140
• Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Stund”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1117

Etymology

From Old Norse stund, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• Audio; “en stund”:

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Noun

stund c

1. while
2. moment, time

Further reading

• stund in Svensk ordbok.
• stund in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)

Anagrams

• dunst