In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense.

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see what you mean, but if I were to nitpik, I’d say the past tense participle of “wind” is “wound”, not “winded”.

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks for pointing it out. I actually had the same question and Merriam-Webster says “wound” and “winded” are interchangeable: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      … That makes me viscerally uncomfortable, and I’m going to be putting it into my daily vocabulary.

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    • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TIL

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also, your username gave me flashbacks lol. Read it in Cuno’s voice

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    • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yea, think about that rabid Cuno shit

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• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s not what etymology is

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fair enough. I was trying to think of another way of saying what I mean and I can’t think of a punchy way of saying it. Do you have one in mind?

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    • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The phrase “long-winded” could be reinterpreted as containing the non-standard past tense of the verb “to wind”, “winded”, and it would still make logical sense.

      Something like that.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You don’t mean “etymological sense”; only one of these is the correct etymology

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fair enough. I can’t think of a punchy way of saying what I mean. Do you know what I mean? And how could I have said it?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d just leave the word out! Or maybe “kind of”. Or “semantic” is an option but I’m not sure about it.

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• TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You sure about this?

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  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was quite sure when I originally posted.

    Then someone said it’s “wound” and not “winded”, but the dictionary said either is fine.

    Then you asked me if I was sure. And now I’m not so sure. What do you think?

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• lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No need to get all wounded up, weather, it blows like the wind, or is winded like a clock.

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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The first “wind” is as in “I donned my wind-breaker because the weather was windy”.

  The second “wind” is as in “I wound up the toy car and, when I released it, it zoomed all the way to the other side of the room”.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The second “wind” is as in “I wound up the toy car and, when I released it, it zoomed all the way to the other side of the room”. In this context, a “long-winded response” is one that metaphorically winded the coils that make the speaker go.

    The more primary meaning is this one (copied from Oxford Dictionary of English): move in or take a twisting or spiral course. The etymology (also from ODE) is: Old English windan ‘go rapidly’, ‘twine’, of Germanic origin; related to wander and wend. Long-winded = the speaker’s words/thoughts wander in circles for a long time.

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    • snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Love it. Thanks for the research and for sharing it!

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• DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wind as in the weather phenomenon.

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• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced “wind”. Duh.

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