vað
Icelandic
[vaːð]
noun
Definitions
- a ford, a place for wading
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse vað (a ford) derived from Proto-Germanic *wadą (ford, shallow water, crossing).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wadą
Gloss
ford, shallow water, crossing
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *uadam Latin
- vadum Latin
- vadāre, vadō, vado Latin
- guado Italian
- *wadʰom Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₂dʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- vadear Portuguese
- *wadą Proto-Germanic
- wath Middle English
- vað Old Norse
- vad Danish
- gual Catalan, Valencian
- Bao Galician
- vad Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- wat Old High German
- vao Old Portuguese
- *waðom Proto-Italic
- vât Friulian
- *wad Frankish