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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbænd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbænd/
- Rhymes: -ænd
Verb
[edit]aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
- (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X.[1], page 108:
- Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
And both of them men of renowmed might;
Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
Grew great, and got large portions of land,
That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aband”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]aband f
- Alternative form of ab (“river”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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aband | unchanged | n-aband |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Old High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs.
Noun
[edit]āband m
Declension
[edit]Declension of āband (masculine a-stem)
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | āband | ābanda |
accusative | āband | ābanda |
genitive | ābandes | ābando |
dative | ābande | ābandum |
instrumental | ābandu | — |
Descendants
[edit]- Middle High German: ābent
References
[edit]- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Old Saxon
[edit]Noun
[edit]āband m
- Alternative spelling of avand
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