different between erd vs ferd

English

Etymology

From Middle English erd (“native land or region; homeland, abode; dwelling or home”), from Old English eard (“native place, country, region, dwelling-place, estate, cultivated ground, earth, land”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d/

Noun

erd

1. (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth

Anagrams

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., EDR, RED, Red, der, red

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eard (“land, country, region; dwelling, home”), from Proto-Germanic *arþiz.

Alternative forms

• ard, arde, urde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rd/, /ard/

Noun

erd (plural erdes)

1. Native land, homeland, home
   • The Owl and the Nightingale:

     Ich fare hom to min Erde.

   • Cleanness:

     ... ever hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest.

   • Wars of Alexander:

     Excludit out of his erd.

Related terms

• Middle English: art (“locality, district”)

Etymology 2

From Old English eard (“nature, kind”), from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Often regarded as the selfsame word above, used in a different sense.

Noun

erd (plural erdes)

1. character; nature; disposition

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?ar?), from Proto-Semitic *?ar??-.

Noun

erd ?

1. Earth (planet)
2. ground, earth

Further reading

• Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “erd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 177b

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic ?????? (?ar?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???d]
• Hyphenation: erd

Noun

erd m

1. ground
2. earth

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English ferde, feord, furd, from Old English fierd (“army”), from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey, expedition”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Old Frisian ferd, fart (“an expedition, journey”), Old High German fart (“journey”) (German Fahrt), Danish færd (“voyage, travel”). Doublet of fyrd. More at fare.

Noun

ferd (plural ferds)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Impetus, speed.
2. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A journey.

3. (obsolete) An army, a host.
4. (obsolete) A military expedition.
   • c. 1050, The Paris Psalter

     Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd...

     (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd...)

5. (obsolete) A company, band, or group.
   • c. 1400, The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy

     And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe, all of fuerse vesell.

     (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a ferd, all of fierce vessel.)

   • 1986, Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89:

     For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]

Usage notes

• This word in its Anglo-Saxon form, fyrd, is used historically in a technical sense.

Derived terms

• landfyrd
• shipfyrd
• ferdfare
• ferdwite

Related terms

• here

References

• “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714
• “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714

Etymology 2

From Middle English feren (“to fear”). More at fear.

Noun

ferd (usually uncountable, plural ferds)

1. (obsolete) Fear.

Anagrams

• Fred, derf

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ferð.

Noun

ferd f or m (definite singular ferda or ferden, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)

1. journey, voyage, expedition
2. være i verd med (also written as iferd): to be on the point of, to be busy with

Derived terms

• folkeferd n
• gjenferd n
• pilegrimsferd
• triumfferd

References

• “ferd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ferd” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse ferð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæ?r/, /f?rd/

Noun

ferd f (definite singular ferda, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)

1. journey, travel

2. group of people
3. vere i verd med: to be on the point of, to be busy with

Derived terms

• ferdsel
• gjenferd n
• pilegrimsferd
• triumfferd

Verb

ferd

1. imperative of ferda and ferde

References

• “ferd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.