windas

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch windas, ultimately from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

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Noun

windas f (plural windassen, diminutive windasje n)

windlass

Middle English

Noun

windas

windlass
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for windas in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

windas m (oblique plural windas, nominative singular windas, nominative plural windas)

winch

Descendants

English: windlass (borrowed)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guindas)

gindas on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (also listed under vindass)