wynd

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.

• IPA^(key): /waɪnd/
• Rhymes: -aɪnd
• Homophone: wind (verb)

wynd (plural wynds)

1. (chiefly Scotland, Northumbria) A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alley

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.

   • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 637:

     He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.

   • 2010 July 10, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian:

     Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.

2. (Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.

   Synonyms: hayrick, haystack

   • 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

     This was then used as the base for the cocks of hay, or wyndes as we called them. […] A piece of hay with its ends firmly embedded in the base of the wynde was wound around the hay twine and knotted with it. The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same way, and this process was repeated crossways.

• W.D.N.Y.

From Old English wind, from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

• wend, wende, wind, winde, wynde

• IPA^(key): /wiːnd/, /wind/

wynd (plural wyndes)

1. wind
   • a. 1333, Alcuin, “Poem 22: Quomodo se habet homo?; Fol. 204v”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎^[1], Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     Also þe lanterne in þe wynd þat sone is aqueynt, / Ase sparkle in þe se þat sone is adreynt, / Ase vom in þe strem þat sone is tothwith, / Ase smoke in þe lift þat passet oure sith.

     Like a lantern in the wind that soon gets quenched, / Like a glimmer in the sea that soon gets drenched / Like foam in the water that soon is dispersed, / Like smoke in the sky that passes [in] our sight.

• wyndmylne

• English: wind
• Scots: wind, win
• Yola: weend, wyeene

• “wīnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

wynd

1. alternative form of wynden (“to wind”)

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.

• IPA^(key): /wəind/

wynd (plural wynds)

1. alley, lane, wynd

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wynd m

1. wind