woord

From Dutch woord, from Middle Dutch wort, from Old Dutch wort, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om.

• IPA^(key): /vʊərt/

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woord (plural woorde)

1. word

From Middle Dutch wort, from Old Dutch wort, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verbum.

• IPA^(key): /ʋoːrt/, [ʋʊːrt]

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• Hyphenation: woord
• Rhymes: -oːrt

woord n (plural woorden, diminutive woordje n)

1. word

• Afrikaans: woord
• Berbice Creole Dutch: woto, wot, wotro
• Jersey Dutch: wôrd
• Negerhollands: woord, woort, word, wort
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: wod (dated)
• Petjo: woord
• → Sranan Tongo: wortu
  • → Saramaccan: woútu

• “woord” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.
• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “woord”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

woord

1. alternative form of word