English

Alternative forms

• teend, tine, teen

Verb

tind ‎(third-person singular simple present tinds, present participle tinding, simple past and past participle tinded or tind)

1. (obsolete) To ignite, kindle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

     Her harty wondes so deepe into the mynd / Of the yong Damzell sunke, that great desire / Of warlike armes in her forthwith they tynd [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind ‎(“tine, prong, tooth”), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz ‎(“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- ‎(“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne ‎(“battlement”), German Zinne ‎(“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde ‎(“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne ‎(“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur ‎(“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). Related also to Dutch tand ‎(“tooth, tine”), English tooth.

Alternative forms

• tynd

Noun

tind ‎(plural tinds)

1. A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.

References

• tind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• dint
• NDTI

Icelandic

Noun

tind

1. indefinite accusative singular of tindur

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic, of unknown ultimate origin. Cognate with Old High German zint, Old Norse tindr, and related to Old High German zinna (German Zinne ‘pinnacle’).

Pronunciation

Noun

tind m ‎(nominative plural tindas)

1. a point or prong on a weapon or implement; a tine

Descendants

• English: tine