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wudu

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wudu, (-o), widu, wiodu ; gen. wuda, wudes; dat, wuda, wudu (-o), wyda ; acc. wudu, wuda ; pl. wuda, wudas ; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§52; §103; §299; §396;
wood,
the substance of growing trees
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a tree
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(hewh) wood,the material obtained from trees
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wood which forms something, something made of wood
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¶ used of the cross.
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Cf. beám, treów
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wood, forest
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in a generic or collective sense, wood, the wood, woods
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a wood
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¶ in several instances of compounds with wudu it may be rendered by wild;
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e.g. wudu-bucca, -cerfille, -hunig, -rose.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. witu lignum
:
Icel. viðr wood; a tree; a wood.
]
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v. ác-, bǽl-, bóc-, bord-, brémber-, brim-, camp-, flód-, furh-, gamen-, gár-, heal-, holm-, holt-, mægen-, sǽ-, sund-, þræc-wudu. The word occurs in many local names, v. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. Index.
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v.  widu wiodu wude-.
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  • wudu, n.