erd

English

Etymology

From Middle English erd (“native land or region; homeland, abode; dwelling or home.”) From Old English eard (“native place, country, region, dwelling-place, estate, cultivated ground, earth, land”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛɹd/

Noun

erd

1. (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth.
   • 1887, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn, A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2)^[1]:

     Thi will on erd be wrought, eek as it is wrought in heven ay.

Middle English

Noun

erd

1. Native land, homeland, home
   • The Owl and the Nightingale:

     Ich fare hom to min Erde.

   • Cleanness:

     ... ever hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest.

   • Wars of Alexander:

     Excludit out of his erd.