"ponder" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

Forms: ponders [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”). Etymology templates: {{der|enm|enm|ponderen}} Middle English ponderen, {{der|enm|fro|ponderer|t=to weigh, balance, ponder}} Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”), {{der|enm|la|ponderare|t=to weigh, ponder}} Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ponder (plural ponders)
  1. (glassblowing, obsolete) A fourteenth-century unit of glass. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Glassblowing, Thinking

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (d4b8e84 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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