different between earth vs gound

English

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ? (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse j?rfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (compare Ancient Greek *??? (*éra) in ????? (éraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).

Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian ????? (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *?ar??- – whence Arabic ?????? (?ar?), Hebrew ?????? (?ere?) – is probably not related.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Proper noun

earth

2. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.

Usage notes

• The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

Translations

Noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

1. (uncountable) Soil.

2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.

3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
9. The people on the globe.
10. (archaic) The human body.
11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
12. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Derived terms

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Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

1. (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.

   Synonym: ground

2. (transitive) To bury.
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
4. (intransitive) To burrow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Tickell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• earthing
• unearth

Translations

Anagrams

• Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare

English

Alternative forms

• gund (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English gounde, gownde, from Old English gund (“matter, pus, poison”), from Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?end?- (“ulcer, sore, abscess, boil”). Cognate with Old High German gunt (“purulent matter”), dialectal Norwegian gund (“the scab of an ulcer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Noun

gound (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal) Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep.
   • 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:

     Typical terms invented to fill this vacuum include sleepies, eye-snot, and bed-boogers. The correct word, however, is gound. "Collin was never one to dillydally in the morning: by the time he had rubbed the gound out of his eyes he was usually on his third Manhattan."

   • 2004, Bart King, Chris Sabatino, The Big Book of Boy Stuff:

     Your eyes get dried mucus in them while you sleep. The stuff is sometimes called bed-boogers or eye-snot, but to be accurate, it is "gound".
2. (Britain dialectal) Gummy matter in sore eyes.

Synonyms

• see sleep

Derived terms

• goundy

Translations

References

• gound in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 692

Anagrams

• Duong, undog, ungod