See also: Rud, RUD, rúd, and rüd

English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (to be ruddy) (compare rudu (redness)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (red); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).

Noun edit

rud (uncountable)

  1. redness; blush
  2. ruddle; red ochre

Verb edit

rud (third-person singular simple present ruds, present participle rudding, simple past and past participle rudded)

  1. (intransitive) To become red; redden.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make red.

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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

rud (plural ruds)

  1. Alternative form of rudd (fish).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish rét.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rud m (genitive singular ruda, nominative plural rudaí)

  1. thing, object, affair (material object)

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

  • anrud (great quantity or number; too much concern, excessive desire)
  • céard (what, interrogative)
  • éard (what, relative)
  • fo-rud (odd, incidental thing)
  • rud beag (a little, a bit)
  • séard (what, relative)
  • Tadhg Ó Rudaí (Joe Bloggs, John Q. Public)

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 59, page 26
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 103, page 41

Further reading edit

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rud

  1. genitive plural of ruda

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish rét.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rud m (genitive singular ruid, plural rudan)

  1. thing

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “rud”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “rét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rǫdъ (Bulgarian руд (rud), Polish rędzy).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. curly, shaggy, locky
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Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rudъ.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. reddish-brown, carroty, foxy
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References edit

  • rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish edit

Noun edit

rud c

  1. (dated) Alternative form of ryd (forest clearing).