stounde

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Middle English

Noun

stounde

  1. 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.
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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian stonda, from Proto-West Germanic *standan. Cognates include English stand and dialectal German standen.

Pronunciation

Verb

stounde

  1. (intransitive) to stand
  2. (intransitive) to be (placed, located)

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References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “stounde”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN