stound

Scots

noun

Definitions

A period of time, a moment.
(obsolete) A sudden pain, a pang.
(Middle Scots) A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon).
(obsolete) A verbal attack, invective.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English stound (a moment) inherited from Old English stund (hour, a period of time, occasion, while, moment, time).

Origin

Old English

stund

Gloss

hour, a period of time, occasion, while, moment, time

Concept

Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

stund Norwegian Bokmål
*stundō Proto-Germanic
stund Swedish
stund Norwegian Nynorsk
stund Old English
stundmælum Old English
stond Middle English
stound Middle English
stund Old Norse
stund Danish
stund Faroese
stånn Westrobothnian