erd
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɝd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɛɾd/
Etymology 1 edit
A variant of earth reinforced by Middle English erd (“home”).
Noun edit
erd
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
erd
- (zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English eard (“country, home, nature”), from Proto-West Germanic *ardi, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Doublet of art (“locality, district”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
erd (plural erdes)
- 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.
- The Owl and the Nightingale:
- Dwelling, home, habitation.
- Character; nature; disposition
Descendants edit
- English: erd (in part)
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-.
Noun edit
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Further reading edit
- 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[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 177b
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From erde, northern variant of Middle English erthe; compare Old English eard (“homeland; earth”).[1]
Noun edit
erd (plural erds)
Verb edit
erd (third-person singular simple present erds, present participle erdin, simple past erdit, past participle erdit)
References edit
- ^ “erd, n., v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Zazaki edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).
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Noun edit
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