wind
Pronunciation: /ʋɪnt/
“wind” is a Dutch word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
- wind (movement of air)
- flatulence, fart
- greyhound
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wint, from Old Dutch wint, from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “wind” there
More Dutch words
About this dictionary
The Dutch dictionary on Glottosphere has 55,948 entries with a page. Browse the Dutch dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.