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onde.

envy; hatred; malice

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. envy; hatred; malice

    obsolete · uncountable · usually

  2. breath

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Scots aynd, eind, end (“breath”), German Ahnd, And (“pain, anguish”), Danish ånd, ånde (“breath, spirit”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Latin anima (“breath, spirit”). More at animal.

verb

  1. To breathe; breathe on.

    dialectal · intransitive · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English onden (Northern dialect ande), from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”).

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