different between abray vs abraid

English

Etymology

Back-formation from the preterite abraid, abrayde. More at abraid.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

abray (third-person singular simple present abrays, present participle abraying, simple past and past participle abrayed)

1. Obsolete form of abraid.

Anagrams

• Araby, Aybar, Ayrab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ?bre?dan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdan? (“to move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r??-, *b?r??- (“to shine”), equivalent to a- +? braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

Alternative forms

• abray

Verb

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out. [10^th-13^thc.]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up. [11^th-18^thc.]
3. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement. [from 11^thc.]
4. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out. [15^th-16^thc.]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea. [16^th-19^thc.]

Related terms

• abray

Etymology 2

From Middle English abrede. More at abread.

Adverb

abraid (comparative more abraid, superlative most abraid)

1. Alternative form of abread

References

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition

Anagrams

• Arabid, rabadi

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab????d?/

Verb

abraid

1. (archaic, Munster) inflection of abair:
   1. third-person plural present indicative dependent
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

Usage notes

The standard modern form is deir siad in the indicative and go ndeire siad in the subjunctive.

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