different between abider vs aider

English

Etymology

abide +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??.d?/

Noun

abider (plural abiders)

1. (obsolete) One who abides, or continues. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. One who dwells or stays; a resident. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
   • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,^[1]

     Much spends the traveller more than the abider.

References

Anagrams

• Beaird, abreid, air bed, airbed, bardie

English

Etymology

aid +? -er

Noun

aider (plural aiders)

1. One who assists.
2. (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.

Related terms

• aide

Anagrams

• Dirae, adire, aired, deair, idear, irade, redia

French

Etymology

From Middle French ayder, from Old French aidier, from Latin adiut?re, present active infinitive of adi?t? (“help, assist”).

• Cognate with Spanish ayudar, Romanian ajuta, Italian aiutare, Portuguese ajudar, Catalan ajudar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.de/, /e.de/

Verb

aider

1. to help; to aid

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• aide

Anagrams

• aride
• raide

Descendants

• English: mayday (from me + aider = m'aider, ultimately from the expression Venez m'aider! "Come help me!")

Further reading

• “aider” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).