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Fording
FORDING
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Definition 2024
fording
fording
English
Verb
fording
- present participle of ford
Noun
fording (plural fordings)
- The act by which something is forded.
- Aldo Leopold
- By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
- Aldo Leopold
- Fording place
- 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, 1918, p. 69,
- There at the fording in the little boat the unknown man plays upon his lute.
- 1910, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali in Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering, New York: Macmillan, 1918, p. 69,
Old Irish
Etymology
Verb
for·ding
Inflection
Complex, class B III present
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Imperfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Future | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
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| Note: only forms actually attested in Old Irish are listed here. | |||||||||
References
- “fording” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.