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Middle English
Noun
stounde
- Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.
2008 January 1 [c. 14th century CE], Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Walter William Skeat, Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume 1, Cosimo, Inc.,, →ISBN, The Minor Poems, V. The Parlement of Foules, page 340, line 142:Thise vers of gold and blak y-writen were,
The whiche I gan a stounde to beholde,
For with that oon encresed ay my fere,
And with that other gan myn herte bolde ;
That oon me hette, that other did me colde,
No wit had I, for errour, for to chese,
To entre or flee, or me to save or lese.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian stonda, from Proto-West Germanic *standan. Cognates include English stand and dialectal German standen.
Pronunciation
Verb
stounde
- (intransitive) to stand
- (intransitive) to be (placed, located)
Conjugation
Conjugation of stounde (irregular)
Derived terms
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015) “stounde”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN