erd

See also: Erd, ERD, and -erd

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛɾd/

Etymology 1

A variant of earth reinforced by Middle English erd (“home”).

Noun

erd

1. (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth

Derived terms

• erd shrew

Related terms

• erdvark

Etymology 2

A clipping of erd shrew.

Noun

erd

1. (zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.

Anagrams

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., EDR, RDE, RED, Red, der, red

Anagrams

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., EDR, RDE, RED, Red, der, red

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ard, arde, urde

Etymology

From Old English eard (“country, home, nature”), from Proto-West Germanic *ardi, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Doublet of art (“locality, district”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛrd/, /ɛːrd/, /ard/

Noun

erd (plural erdes)

1. Native land, homeland
   • 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.

2. Dwelling, home, habitation.
3. Character; nature; disposition

Descendants

• English: erd (in part)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْض‎ (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-.

Noun

erd ?

1. Earth (planet)
2. ground, earth

Further reading

• Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “erd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 177b

Scots

Etymology

From erde, northern variant of Middle English erthe; compare Old English eard (“homeland; earth”).

Noun

erd (plural erds)

1. (archaic or obsolete) the Earth

   by a’ the erd

   for all the world

2. soil, earth

Verb

erd (third-person singular simple present erds, present participle erdin, simple past erdit, past participle erdit)

1. (obsolete) to inter, to bury
2. to cover with earth, to store underground

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض‎ (ʔarḍ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾd]
• Hyphenation: erd

Noun

erd

1. ground
2. earth