ferde
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From the fered variant of fürdik (“to bathe”, the word family originally expressing “to turn, revolve, spin”) + -e (obsolete present-participle suffix).[1] Its current meaning goes back to the sense “to turn round, diverge, deviate from straight”, compare fordul.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ferde (comparative ferdébb, superlative legferdébb)
- slanting, inclined, oblique
- leaning (to one side), tilted, crooked
- sideways (glance)
- perverted (view), awkward (behavior)
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | ferde | ferdék |
| accusative | ferdét | ferdéket |
| dative | ferdének | ferdéknek |
| instrumental | ferdével | ferdékkel |
| causal-final | ferdéért | ferdékért |
| translative | ferdévé | ferdékké |
| terminative | ferdéig | ferdékig |
| essive-formal | ferdeként | ferdékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | ferdében | ferdékben |
| superessive | ferdén | ferdéken |
| adessive | ferdénél | ferdéknél |
| illative | ferdébe | ferdékbe |
| sublative | ferdére | ferdékre |
| allative | ferdéhez | ferdékhez |
| elative | ferdéből | ferdékből |
| delative | ferdéről | ferdékről |
| ablative | ferdétől | ferdéktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
ferdéé | ferdéké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
ferdééi | ferdékéi |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ ferde in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ ferde in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English fierd, fyrd, feord, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”); compare faren. Forms with a final vowel are from the Old English oblique forms.
Cognate with Old Frisian ferd, fart (“an expedition, journey”), Old High German fart (“journey”) (German Fahrt), Danish færd (“voyage, travel”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ferde (plural ferdes or ferden)
- An army or host.
- 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle:
- With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd.
- With you I will go as fellows in an army.
- A troop; a portion of an army.
- c. 1400, The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy:
- And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe, all of fuerse vesell.
(And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a troop, all of fierce vessel.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (by extension) A band or company.
- (rare, Early Middle English) A military expedition.
Descendants edit
- >? English: ferd
References edit
- “fẹ̄̆rd(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ferde
- Alternative form of ferd (“fear”)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
ferde (present tense ferdar, past tense ferda, past participle ferda, passive infinitive ferdast, present participle ferdande, imperative ferde/ferd)
- Alternative form of ferda
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English ferd.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ferde
- fear
- Synonym: vear
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:
- Th' hap, an ee ferde, an ee crie, was Tommeen.
- The chance, and the fear, and the cry, was Tommeen.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88