erd
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[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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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]erd
- (zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.
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[edit]Middle English
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[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]erd ?
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, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Zazaki
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]erd
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