different between edder vs odder

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

Verb

edder (third-person singular simple present edders, present participle eddering, simple past and past participle eddered)

1. (obsolete) To bind the top interweaving edder.

Etymology 2

Variant of adder.

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. An adder or snake.

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Etymology 3

From Middle English edre (“a vein, blood vessel”), from Old English ?dre (“a vein, artery; sinew”), from Proto-West Germanic *?dr? (“vein”).

Cognates include (from Germanic) Old Saxon -?ðara (Dutch ader), Old High German ?dra (German Ader), Old Norse æðr (Swedish åder); (from Indo-European) Ancient Greek ???? (êtor, “heart”), Latin uterus, Old Irish inathar (“entrails”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d.?/

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. (rare, dialect or obsolete) A blood vessel.

Anagrams

• dered, dreed

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?d??r, IPA^(key): /??d.?/, [(?)???]
• Homophone: otter
• Rhymes: -?d?(r)

Adjective

odder

1. comparative form of odd: more odd

Anagrams

• roded

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse otr (“otter”), from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic, water-animal”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”). Cognates are Faroese otur, Icelandic otur, Norwegian Bokmål oter and Swedish utter. Compare Dutch otter and German Otter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?r/, [??ð??]

Noun

odder c (singular definite odderen, plural indefinite oddere)

1. otter, Lutra lutra
2. indefinite plural of odde

Inflection

See also

• Odder (dyr) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Old High German odar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?or?/

Conjunction

odder

1. or

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

odder m

1. indefinite plural of odde

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German oder.

Conjunction

odder

1. or