vad

• IPA^(key): [ˈvat]

vad

1. genitive plural of vada

From Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“shallow water, ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

• IPA^(key): /vad/, [vað]
• Rhymes: -ad

vad n (singular definite vadet, plural indefinite vad)

1. (rare) ford (a crossing)

• vadested

• vade ("wade")

See vade (“to wade”).

• IPA^(key): /vaːd/, [væːˀð]

vad

1. imperative of vade

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wamta (“forest”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒd]

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

vad (comparative vadabb, superlative legvadabb)

1. wild, untamed
2. uncontrolled, unregulated

• szelíd

• vadon

vad (plural vadak)

1. game (wild animal)

• vad in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

vad

1. imperative of vade

Inherited from Latin vadum (“shallow, ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvad/
• Rhymes: -ad

vad n (plural vaduri)

1. ford

• vădos

• hvad (pre-1906 spelling)

• IPA^(key): /vɑːd/, [vɒ̜ːd̪], (etymology 1 also) /vɑː/

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From Old Swedish hvat, hvadh, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Closely related to German was and English what and cognates in other languages in the branch of Germanic languages. Other IE cognates are Latin qui, quae, quod and the derived words of its successors in the family of Romance languages.

vad n

1. what

From Old Swedish vaþ, væþ, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Cognate with Old English wedd.

vad n

1. bet, wager

• slå vad
• vadslagning

From Old Swedish vaþ, from Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

vad n

1. a ford, a place for wading, short for vadställe

Shortening (ca. 1800) of earlier vada (comparable to färg from färga). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waþwô. The form may to some degree continue Old Swedish vaþve, from Old Norse vǫðvi, but was probably influenced by cognate Middle Low German wāde and/or modern German Wade.^[1]

vad c

1. (anatomy) calf; the back side of the lower part of the leg.

• vadmuskel

From Old Norse vaðr “fishing line,” from Proto-Germanic *wadiz. Compare Old English wadu “dragnet”, Lithuanian bradi̇̀nė, Proto-Slavic *brodьnь id.

vad c

1. a trawl

• vad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• adv.