# vad
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvat]

### Noun

vad
* genitive plural of vada

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“shallow water, ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vad/, [vað]
* Rhymes: -ad

#### Noun

vad n (singular definite vadet, plural indefinite vad)
* (rare) ford (a crossing)

##### Synonyms

* vadested

##### Related terms

* vade ("wade")

### Etymology 2

See vade (“to wade”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːd/, [væːˀð]

#### Verb

vad
* imperative of vade

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wamta (“forest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒd]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒd

### Adjective

vad (comparative vadabb, superlative legvadabb)
* wild, untamed
* uncontrolled, unregulated

#### Antonyms

* szelíd

#### Derived terms

* vadon

### Noun

vad (plural vadak)
* game (wild animal)

#### Derived terms

* vadas
* vadász
* vadonc
* vadóc
* dámvad
* fenevad
* vadállat
* vaddisznó
* vadember
* vadgalamb
* vadgerle
* vadgesztenye
* vadházasság
* vadkacsa
* vadkan
* vadkecske
* vadkörte
* vadmacska
* vadnyúl
* vadrózsa
* vadszeder
* vadtyúk

### References

* ↑ Entry #1114 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ vad in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* vad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

vad
* imperative of vade

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vadum (“shallow, ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvad/
* Rhymes: -ad

### Noun

vad n (plural vaduri)
* ford

#### Related terms

* vădos

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* hvad (pre-1906 spelling)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑːd/, [vɒ̜ːd̪], (etymology 1 also) /vɑː/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hvat, hvadh, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. Closely related to German was and English what and cognates in other languages in the branch of Germanic languages. Other IE cognates are Latin qui, quae, quod and the derived words of its successors in the family of Romance languages.

#### Pronoun

vad n
* what

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vaþ, væþ, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Cognate with Old English wedd.

#### Noun

vad n
* bet, wager

##### Derived terms

* slå vad
* vadslagning

### Etymology 3

From Old Swedish vaþ, from Old Norse vað, from Proto-Germanic *wadą, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

#### Noun

vad n
* a ford, a place for wading, short for vadställe

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

Shortening (ca. 1800) of earlier vada (comparable to färg from färga). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waþwô. The form may to some degree continue Old Swedish vaþve, from Old Norse vǫðvi, but was probably influenced by cognate Middle Low German wāde and/or modern German Wade.

#### Noun

vad c
* (anatomy) calf; the back side of the lower part of the leg.

##### Derived terms

* vadmuskel

### Etymology 5

From Old Norse vaðr “fishing line,” from Proto-Germanic *wadiz. Compare Old English wadu “dragnet”, Lithuanian bradìnė, Proto-Slavic *brodьnь id.

#### Noun

vad c
* a trawl

##### Declension
### References

* vad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* vad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* vad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ vad 1 in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* adv.