cud
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”).
Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)
- The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
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Verb
editcud (third-person singular simple present cuds, present participle cudding, simple past and past participle cudded)
- (transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
- Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, published 2009, Part One, Chapter Two:
- […] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.
Etymology 2
editShortened form of could.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcud
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of could.
- 1899, Jack London, The Men of Forty-Mile:
- 'Twas the anchor-ice comin' up. To the right, to the lift, as far as iver a man cud see, the water was covered with the same.
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editKashubian
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *čudo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcud m inan
Further reading
editPolish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish czud, czudo, from Proto-Slavic *čudo.
Cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”). The current form is a result of mazuration.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcud m inan
Declension
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editDescendants
edit- → Belarusian: цуд (cud)
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editRomagnol
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcud f pl
Welsh
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle English kyte.
Noun
editcud m (plural cudiaid)
- kite (bird)
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editMutation
editradical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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cud | gud | nghud | chud |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cud”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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