See also: Aband and A band

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of abandon

Pronunciation

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Verb

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aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake. [attested only in the late 16th century][1]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X.[1], page 108:
      Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
      Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
      And both of them men of renowmed might;
      Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
      And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
      Grew great, and got large portions of land,
      That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre,
      Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand,
      And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aband”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

Anagrams

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Middle Irish

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Noun

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aband f

  1. Alternative form of ab (river)

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
aband unchanged n-aband
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs.

Noun

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āband m

  1. evening
  2. eve
  3. west
    Synonym: westar

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Middle High German: ābent

References

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  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Saxon

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Noun

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āband m

  1. Alternative spelling of avand