different between bred vs mousery

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: bread

Verb

bred

1. simple past tense and past participle of breed

Derived terms

• nonbred
• unbred

Anagrams

• EBRD

Bislama

Etymology

From English bread.

Noun

bred

1. bread

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bre??ð/, [?b??æ?ð], [?b??æð?]

Adjective

bred (neuter bredt, plural and definite singular attributive brede, comparative bredere, superlative (predicative) bredest, superlative (attributive) bredeste)

1. broad, wide

Synonyms

• vid

Antonyms

• smal

References

• “bred,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Danish bræd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz, cognate with Norwegian bredd, Swedish brädd, Old English breord. Related to *bruzdaz (“thorn”) (Danish brod) and possibly also *burd? (“board”) (Danish bord).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /breð(?)/, [?b??æð?], [?b??æð]

Noun

bred c (singular definite bredden, plural indefinite bredder)

1. shore
2. bank

Inflection

References

• “bred,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Manx

Etymology

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

Verb

bred (verbal noun breddal, past participle breddit)

1. to hackle

Related terms

• breddey (“hackling”)

Mutation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd

Etymology

From Old English br?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??d/

Noun

bred

2. bread, pastry
3. food, nourishment

Descendants

• English: bread
  • Sranan Tongo: brede
  • ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
• Scots: breid
• Yola: breed

References

• “br?d, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• brei

Etymology

From Old Norse breiðr

Adjective

bred (neuter singular bredt, definite singular and plural brede, comparative bredere, indefinite superlative bredest, definite superlative bredeste)

1. wide, broad

Antonyms

• smal

Derived terms

• bredbånd

References

• “bred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bred?, derived from the e-grade *b?red?óm, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-d?-, extended form of *b?er- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Cognates include German Brett, Yiddish ????? (bret).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bred/

Noun

bred n (nominative plural bredu)

1. surface
2. plank, board
3. table, tablet

Synonyms

• bord

Descendants

• Middle English: brede (from the oblique cases)
  • Scots: bred

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bre?d/, [?br??d]

Adjective

br?d

1. broad, wide

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: briad

  Goesharde: briid

  Halligen: briad

  Mooring: briidj

  Sylt: breer

  Wiedingharde: briidj

• Saterland Frisian: breed
• West Frisian: brie

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

Adjective

br?d

1. broad, wide

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: *brêd
  • German Low German:

    Altmärkisch: breet

    Low Prussian, Westphalian (Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch): breed

    Westphalian:

    Dortmundisch: bra??t

    Sauerländisch: bräit, brait (Elpe, Felbecke, Finnentrop, Attendorn, Elspe), br?t (Niedersfeld)

    East Westphalian: breit (Lippe)

    Eastphalian: breit (Wedemark)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish br?þer, from Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d

Adjective

bred (comparative bredare, superlative bredast)

1. broad, wide; having great width

Declension

Antonyms

• smal

Derived terms

• bredvid
• gå den breda vägen

Related terms

• bredd (width)
• bredda (to widen)

Verb

bred

1. imperative of breda.

English

Etymology

mouse +? -ery

Noun

mousery (plural mouseries)

1. (rare) A place where mice are kept and bred.
   • 1965, George Washington Corner, A History of the Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Univ. Press, p. 228 (Google preview):

     There was indeed a mousery of vast proportions, far from general view on an upper floor. . . . A member of the Institute's research staff, unaware of its existence and unexpectedly admitted, found himself in a city of mice, thousands of them, elaborately housed and cared for.

Anagrams

• Seymour