word
Middle English
/wurd/
noun
Definitions
- A word separable, discrete linguistic unit
- A statement; a linguistic unit said or written by someone:
- Discourse; the exchange of statements.
- The act of speaking especially as opposed to action
- The basic, non-figurative reading of something.
- The way one speaks especially with modifying adjective
- (theology) The Logos Jesus Christ
- (rare) The linguistic faculty as a whole.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English word (thornbush, word, message, statement, thorn-bush) inherited from *word inherited from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (word) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (word).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*werdʰh₁om
Gloss
word
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
辞
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- McWord English
- Wonderword English
- WordNet English
- afterword English
- arrowword English
- backword English
- bareword English
- baseword English
- buzzword English
- byword English
- catchword English
- codeword English
- counterword English
- crossword English
- doubleword English
- foreword English
- frankenword English
- fuzzword English
- gainword English
- guideword English
- halfword English
- headword English
- honeyword English
- hotword English
- interword English
- joey word English
- keyword English
- kiloword English
- loanword English
- longword English
- megaword English
- metaword English
- midword English
- misword English
- multi-word English
- nameword English
- non-word English
- octoword English
- overword English
- p-word English
- partword English
- password English
- phoneword English
- polyword English
- protoword English
- pseudoword English
- quadword English
- reword English
- safe word English
- safeword English
- startword English
- stopword English
- subword English
- syncword English
- underword English
- ur-word English
- urword English
- wanderword English
- watchword English
- word English
- word break English
- word-deafness English
- word-hoard English
- word-lover English
- word-perfect English
- word-stock English
- wordable English
- wordage English
- wordaholic English
- wordbook English
- wordbuilding English
- wordcount English
- wordcraft English
- worder English
- wordfact English
- wordfest English
- wordfinal English
- wordfinding English
- wordflow English
- wordform English
- wordful English
- wordhood English
- wordie English
- wordinitial English
- wordish English
- wordlength English
- wordless English
- wordlet English
- wordlike English
- wordline English
- wordlist English
- wordlore English
- wordly English
- wordmaker English
- wordmark English
- wordmeal English
- wordmonger English
- wordness English
- wordnet English
- wordoid English
- wordology English
- wordplay English
- wordpool English
- wordprocess English
- wordscape English
- wordshaping English
- wordship English
- wordsize English
- wordsmith English
- wordsome English
- wordster English
- wordstring English
- wordwise English
- wordy English
- workword English
- verbum Latin
- *werdʰh₁om Proto-Indo-European
- *werdʰh₁om, *wr̥dʰh₁om Proto-Indo-European
- *werdʰo- Proto-Indo-European
- *werh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wr̥dʰh₁om Proto-Indo-European
- *wr̥dʰom Proto-Indo-European
- *wurdą Proto-Germanic
- ワード Japanese
- biword Old English
- bīword Old English
- gielpword Old English
- witword Old English
- word Old English
- wordfæst Old English
- wordgecwide Old English
- wordhord Old English
- wordig Old English
- wordiġ Old English
- wordlaþu Old English
- wordmittung Old English
- wordpredicung Old English
- wordsawere Old English
- wuldorword Old English
- bod Middle English
- bodeword Middle English
- byword Middle English
- hereword Middle English
- herien Middle English
- mysword Middle English
- wacche Middle English
- wacche word Middle English
- wit Middle English
- worden Middle English
- wordy Middle English
- wytword Middle English
- orð Old Norse
- pulong hinulaman Cebuano
- pulong hinuwaman Cebuano
- *word Old High German
- wort Old High German
- vārds Latvian
- vorto Ido
- 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 Gothic
- *word gmw-pro
- wort Old Dutch
- word Old Saxon
- *werβom Proto-Italic
- wird Scots
- word Old Frisian
- vöd Volapük
- wod Tok Pisin
- word Chinese Pidgin English