vad

• IPA^(key): [ˈvat]

vad

1. genitive plural of vada

From Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“shallow water, ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

• IPA^(key): /vad/, [vað]
• Rhymes: -ad

vad n (singular definite vadet, plural indefinite vad)

1. (rare) ford (a crossing)

• vadested

• vade ("wade")

See vade (“to wade”).

• IPA^(key): /vaːd/, [væːˀð]

vad

1. imperative of vade

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wamta (“forest”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒd]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

vad (comparative vadabb, superlative legvadabb)

1. wild, untamed
2. uncontrolled, unregulated

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	vad	vadak
accusative	vadat	vadakat
dative	vadnak	vadaknak
instrumental	vaddal	vadakkal
causal-final	vadért	vadakért
translative	vaddá	vadakká
terminative	vadig	vadakig
essive-formal	vadként	vadakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	vadban	vadakban
superessive	vadon	vadakon
adessive	vadnál	vadaknál
illative	vadba	vadakba
sublative	vadra	vadakra
allative	vadhoz	vadakhoz
elative	vadból	vadakból
delative	vadról	vadakról
ablative	vadtól	vadaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	vadé	vadaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	vadéi	vadakéi

• szelíd

• vadon

vad (plural vadak)

1. game (wild animal)

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	vad	vadak
accusative	vadat	vadakat
dative	vadnak	vadaknak
instrumental	vaddal	vadakkal
causal-final	vadért	vadakért
translative	vaddá	vadakká
terminative	vadig	vadakig
essive-formal	vadként	vadakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	vadban	vadakban
superessive	vadon	vadakon
adessive	vadnál	vadaknál
illative	vadba	vadakba
sublative	vadra	vadakra
allative	vadhoz	vadakhoz
elative	vadból	vadakból
delative	vadról	vadakról
ablative	vadtól	vadaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	vadé	vadaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	vadéi	vadakéi

Possessive forms of vad
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	vadam	vadjaim
2nd person sing.	vadad	vadjaid
3rd person sing.	vadja	vadjai
1st person plural	vadunk	vadjaink
2nd person plural	vadatok	vadjaitok
3rd person plural	vadjuk	vadjaik

• vad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

vad

1. imperative of vade

Inherited from Latin vadum (“shallow, ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvad/
• Rhymes: -ad

vad n (plural vaduri)

1. ford

• vădos

• hvad (pre-1906 spelling)

• IPA^(key): /vɑːd/, [vɒ̜ːd̪], (etymology 1 also) /vɑː/

• Audio:

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From Old Swedish hvat, hvadh, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Closely related to German was and English what and cognates in other languages in the branch of Germanic languages. Other IE cognates are Latin qui, quae, quod and the derived words of its successors in the family of Romance languages.

vad n

1. what

From Old Swedish vaþ, væþ, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Cognate with Old English wedd.

vad n

1. bet, wager

From Old Swedish vaþ, from Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

vad n

1. a ford, a place for wading, short for vadställe

Shortening (ca. 1800) of earlier vada (comparable to färg from färga). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waþwô. The form may to some degree continue Old Swedish vaþve, from Old Norse vǫðvi, but was probably influenced by cognate Middle Low German wāde and/or modern German Wade.^[1]

vad c

1. (anatomy) calf; the back side of the lower part of the leg.

• vadmuskel

From Old Norse vaðr “fishing line,” from Proto-Germanic *wadiz. Compare Old English wadu “dragnet”, Lithuanian bradìnė, Proto-Slavic *brodьnь id.

vad c

1. a trawl

• vad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• adv.