aband

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See also: Aband and A band

English

Etymology

Clipping of abandon

Pronunciation

Verb

aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X.‎, 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

  1. ↑ 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

Middle Irish

Noun

aband f

  1. Alternative form of ab (“river”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
aband unchanged n-aband
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs.

Noun

āband m

  1. evening
  2. eve
  3. west
    Synonym: westar

Declension

Declension of āband (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative āband ābanda
accusative āband ābanda
genitive ābandes ābando
dative ābande ābandum
instrumental ābandu —

Descendants

References

  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Saxon

Noun

āband m

  1. Alternative spelling of avand
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