Wind

• As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind.
• Also as a German surname, variant of Wendt.

Wind

1. A surname

From Middle High German wint, from Old High German wint, from Proto-West Germanic *wind. Cognates include German Wind and Luxembourgish Wand.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvind̥/, /ˈβind̥/
• Hyphenation: Wind

Wind m (plural Wind)

1. wind
   • 1938, Josef Weinheber, Wien wörtlich, Impression im März:

     Zårte Blatterl schiaßen aus die Zweigel,
     und Papierln ziagn im Fruahjåhrswind.

     Tender leaves shoot up from the grape,
     and the papers move in the spring wind.

2. fart

   Synonyms: Schas, Schoaß

3. (Vienna) bragging
4. (Vienna) upset, disturbance

   Kumm, moch kan Wind! ― Come on, don't get upset!

• Maria Hornung, Sigmar Grüner (2002) “Wind”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT

From Middle High German wint, from Old High German wint, from Proto-West Germanic *wind. Compare Dutch wind, English wind, Danish vind, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds).

• IPA^(key): /vɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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Wind m (strong, genitive Windes or Winds, plural Winde, diminutive Windchen n)

1. wind; the movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure

• Fahrtwind
• Fahrwind
• Gegenwind
• Rückenwind

• “Wind” in Duden online
• “Wind” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Wind”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German wint, from Old Saxon wind, from Proto-West Germanic *wind. Compare German Wind, Dutch wind, English wind, Danish vind, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds).

• IPA^(key): /wɪnt/

Wind m (plural Winn or Winnen)

1. wind; the movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure

• Fohrtwind
• Fohrwind
• Gegenwind

• IPA^(key): /vint/
• Rhymes: -int
• Hyphenation: Wind

Inherited from Middle High German wint, from Old High German wint, from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts.^[1]

Cognate with German Wind and Luxembourgish Wand.

Wind m (plural Wind)

1. wind (movement of air)

Inherited from Middle High German winden, from Old High German windan, from Proto-West Germanic *windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-.^[1]

Cognate with German winden and German wënnen.

Wind f (plural Winne)

1. (engineering) pulley