windy

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• /ˈwɪn.di/
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• rhymes with -ɪndi
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• homophone: Wendy (pin–pen merger)
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• /ˈwaɪndi/
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• CMU ARPABET: W IH1 N D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: W AY1 N D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.

Etymology tree English wind Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English windy From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: me erë — accompanied by wind
• Southern Altai: јелдӱ (ǰeldü) — accompanied by wind
• Arabic: عَاصِف (ʕāṣif) — accompanied by wind
• Armenian: քամոտ (kʻamot) — accompanied by wind
• Azerbaijani: küləkli — accompanied by wind
• Belarusian: ве́траны (vjétrany) — accompanied by wind
• Bulgarian: ветрови́т (vetrovít) — accompanied by wind
• Catalan: ventós — accompanied by wind
• Chickasaw: mahli — accompanied by wind
• Chinese Cantonese: 大風 /大风 (daai6 fung1) — accompanied by wind
• Eastern Min Chinese: 大風 /大风 (duâi-hŭng) — accompanied by wind
• Hakka Chinese: 大風 /大风 (thai-fûng) — accompanied by wind
• Chinese: 大風 /大风 (tōa-hong) — accompanied by wind
• Chinese Mandarin: 大風 /大风 (dàfēng) — accompanied by wind
• Czech: větrný — accompanied by wind
• Danish: blæsende — accompanied by wind
• Dutch: winderig — accompanied by wind
• Esperanto: venta — accompanied by wind
• Estonian: tuuline — accompanied by wind
• Finnish: tuulinen — accompanied by wind
• French: venteux — accompanied by wind
• Georgian: ქარიანი (kariani) — accompanied by wind
• German: windig — accompanied by wind
• Greek: ανεμώδης (anemódis) — accompanied by wind
• Ancient Greek: ἀνεμώδης (anemṓdēs) — accompanied by wind
• Ancient Greek: ἠνεμόεις (ēnemóeis) — accompanied by wind
• Hindi: तूफ़ानी (tūfānī) — accompanied by wind
• Hindi: हवादार (havādār) — accompanied by wind
• Hungarian: szeles — accompanied by wind
• Icelandic: vindugur — accompanied by wind
• Icelandic: vindasamur — accompanied by wind
• Icelandic: hvass — accompanied by wind
• Ingrian: tuulekas — accompanied by wind
• Irish: gaofar — accompanied by wind
• Middle Irish: gáethmar — accompanied by wind
• Old Irish: gáethach — accompanied by wind
• Italian: ventoso — accompanied by wind
• Japanese: 風の吹く (kaze no fuku) — accompanied by wind
• Japanese: 風の強い (kaze no tsuyoi) — accompanied by wind
• Kazakh: желді (jeldı) — accompanied by wind
• Khmer: ខ្យល់ខ្លាំង (khyɑlkhlang) — accompanied by wind
• Korean: 바람 부는 (baram buneun) — accompanied by wind
• Kyrgyz: шамалдуу (şamalduu) — accompanied by wind
• Lao: ລົມແຮງ (lom hǣng) — accompanied by wind
• Latin: ventōsus — accompanied by wind
• Latvian: vējains — accompanied by wind
• Lithuanian: vėjuotas — accompanied by wind
• Macedonian: ветровит (vetrovit) — accompanied by wind
• Manchu: ᡝᡩᡠ᠋ᠩᡤᡝ (edungge) — accompanied by wind
• Manx: geayeeagh — accompanied by wind
• Mongolian: салхитай (salxitaj) — accompanied by wind
• Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠯᠬᠢᠲᠠᠢ (salqitai) — accompanied by wind
• Norwegian Bokmål: vindfull — accompanied by wind
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vindfull — accompanied by wind
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vindal — accompanied by wind
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vindsam — accompanied by wind
• Persian: بادی (bâdi) — accompanied by wind
• Polish: wietrzny — accompanied by wind
• Portuguese: ventoso — accompanied by wind
• Romanian: vântos — accompanied by wind
• Russian: ве́треный (vétrenyj) — accompanied by wind
• Sardinian: bentosu — accompanied by wind
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothach — accompanied by wind
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothmhor — accompanied by wind
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothar — accompanied by wind
• Serbo-Croatian: ветро̀вит — accompanied by wind
• Serbo-Croatian: вјетро̀вит — accompanied by wind
• Serbo-Croatian: vetròvit — accompanied by wind
• Serbo-Croatian: vjetròvit — accompanied by wind
• Slovak: veterný — accompanied by wind
• Slovene: vetroven — accompanied by wind
• Spanish: ventoso — accompanied by wind
• Swedish: blåsig — accompanied by wind
• Tajik: бодӣ (bodi) — accompanied by wind
• Tatar: җилле (cille) — accompanied by wind
• Thai: ลมแรง (lom-rɛɛng) — accompanied by wind
• Turkish: rüzgârlı — accompanied by wind
• Turkmen: şemally — accompanied by wind
• Tuvan: хаттыг (xattıg) — accompanied by wind
• Ukrainian: ві́тряний (vítrjanyj) — accompanied by wind
• Urdu: ہوا دار (havā-dār) — accompanied by wind
• Uyghur: شاماللىق (shamalliq) — accompanied by wind
• Uzbek: shamolli — accompanied by wind
• Vietnamese: có gió — accompanied by wind
• Volapük: vienik — accompanied by wind
• Welsh: gwyntog — accompanied by wind
• Yakut: тыаллаах (tïallaaq) — accompanied by wind
• Yiddish: ווינטיק (vintik) — accompanied by wind
• Chickasaw: mahli — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Czech: větrný — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Finnish: tuulinen — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Finnish: tuulen pieksämä — unsheltered and open to the wind
• French: venteux — unsheltered and open to the wind
• French: venté — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Italian: ventilato — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Norwegian Bokmål: vindfull — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vindfull — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothach — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Swedish: blåsig — unsheltered and open to the wind
• Catalan: va — empty and lacking substance
• Finnish: tyhjä — empty and lacking substance
• Finnish: tuulesta temmattu — empty and lacking substance
• French: vain — empty and lacking substance
• Japanese: 空疎な (kūso na) — empty and lacking substance
• Latin: vanus — empty and lacking substance
• Spanish: vano — empty and lacking substance
• Swedish: tom — empty and lacking substance
• Swedish: ihålig — empty and lacking substance
• Finnish: ilmavaivainen — flatulent
• French: venteux — flatulent
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothach — flatulent
• Scottish Gaelic: gaothmhor — flatulent
• Spanish: flatulento — flatulent
• Finnish: mutkainen — having many bends
• Finnish: kiemurteleva — having many bends
• Italian: curvoso — having many bends
• Russian: изви́листый (izvílistyj) — having many bends
• Spanish: serpenteante — having many bends
• Yoruba: kọ́lọkọ̀lọ — having many bends