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noun
envy; hatred; malice
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Synonyms: envy, hatred
Antonyms: none provided
noun
breath
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: breath
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To breathe; breathe on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2enh1- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Scots aynd, eind, end (“breath”), German Ahnd, And (“pain, anguish”), Danish ånd, ånde (“breath, spirit”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Latin anima (“breath, spirit”). More at animal.
From Middle English onden (Northern dialect ande), from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”).
