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reed

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EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin.

Akin to Saterland Frisian Rait (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳 (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm.[1] They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius).[1] The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.[2]

NounEdit

reed (countable and uncountable, plural reeds)

  1. (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
  2. (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
  3. (countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
  4. (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
  6. (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
  7. (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
  8. (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
  9. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
  10. Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
  11. (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
  12. (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
    1. A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English reden, from the noun (see above).

VerbEdit

reed (third-person singular simple present reeds, present participle reeding, simple past and past participle reeded)

  1. (transitive) To thatch.
  2. To mill or mint with reeding.

Etymology 3Edit

See ree.

VerbEdit

reed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of ree

Etymology 4Edit

From Middle English rede (“abomasum”), from Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

reed (plural reeds)

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The supposition about Gothic and the quote from Noctes Atticae in Deutsches Wörterbuch: "dixit ... amicus meus in libro se Gavi de origine vocabulorum VII legisse "retas" vocari arbores, quae aut ripis fluminum eminerent aut in alveis eorum exstarent"
  2. ^ Jens Høyrup, Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin, p. 209, Springer, 2002 →ISBN.

AnagramsEdit

DutchEdit

Pronunciation 1Edit

VerbEdit

reed

  1. singular past indicative of rijden

Pronunciation 2Edit

VerbEdit

reed

  1. first-person singular present indicative of reden
  2. imperative of reden

AnagramsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English ræd.

NounEdit

reed

  1. (Chaucer) advice, counsel

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English read.

AdjectiveEdit

reed

  1. red
    • 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue
      Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.
      Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

PlautdietschEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German gerêde, from Old Saxon *girēdi, from Proto-West Germanic *(ga)raidī, from Proto-Germanic *raidaz.

AdjectiveEdit

reed

  1. ready, prepared

West FrisianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

NounEdit

reed c (plural redens, diminutive reedsje)

  1. skate
Further readingEdit
  • “reed (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Frisian *rēd, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō.

NounEdit

reed c (plural reden, diminutive reedsje)

  1. driveway
  2. journey
Further readingEdit
  • “reed (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

YolaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud.

AdjectiveEdit

reed

  1. red
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Reed jhemes; Reed-shearde on a mountain.
      Red rags; The Red Gap on the mountain.

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 64
Colors in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak
             reed              yulloureed              yullou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente
             blúegreen              *asure              blúe
                          purple              rowse
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