vað

See also: vad, wad, WAD, văd, våd, wæd, and váð

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [vaːð]
    Rhymes: -aːð

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą; whence also Old English wæd, Swedish vad short for of vadställe, Danish vad, Norwegian vadested and Old High German wat. Compare the Latin vadum (“a ford”). The noun vað is derived from the verb vaða (“to wade”) and is not borrowed from the Latin noun.

Noun

vað n (genitive singular vaðs, nominative plural vöð)

  1. a ford, a place for wading
Declension
declension of vað
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vað vaðið vöð vöðin
accusative vað vaðið vöð vöðin
dative vaði vaðinu vöðum vöðunum
genitive vaðs vaðsins vaða vaðanna
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • fara á hundavaði yfir (to pass by a dog's ford over something; to slut something over, to do something hurriedly and badly)
  • hafa vaðið fyrir neðan sig
  • ríða á vaðið/ríða á vaðið með (to be the first to start on something, to be the first to tackle something)

Etymology 2

See vaða.

Verb

vað

  1. imperative singular of vaða
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