Other forms: winds
Wind is moving air that you feel on your face and that shakes the trees. A strong wind, the wind dropped, wind speed.
It is named by where it comes from: a north wind blows from the north. Wind speed is measured in knots or miles per hour, and the Beaufort scale grades it from calm to hurricane. Wind power now generates a large share of British electricity. Note that the verb wind, meaning to turn or coil, rhymes with find and is a different word; and get wind of something, meaning to hear a rumour.
1nounwindMoving air felt on the face.
“The wind reached about sixty miles an hour that night.”
wind is moving air.
Old English wind descends from a Proto-Indo-European root that also gives Latin ventus — the source of ventilate and vent. Every European language names the wind from the same blowing.
Middle English
wynd
English, today
wind
Built from
From Middle English wynd. From Middle English wynd,wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic wind, from Proto-Germanic windaz, from Proto-Indo-European h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA