-red
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English -rede, -red, -redde, -reden, from Old English -rǣden (which see). Cognate with German -rat (as in Heirat (“wedding”)).
SuffixEdit
-red
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Middle EnglishEdit
SuffixEdit
-red
- Alternative form of -rede
Old EnglishEdit
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PronunciationEdit
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-red
- Alternative form of -raþ
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-,[1] whence also rhedeg (“to run”). Cognate with Old Irish -rad.[2]
PronunciationEdit
SuffixEdit
-red f
- Forms abstract nouns.
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 143 iii (22)
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-red”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies