different between erd vs merd

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

Etymology

French merde, Latin merda. Doublet of mierda.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

merd

1. (obsolete) Ordure; dung.

Derived terms

• bemerd

Anagrams

• -derm, D-MER, Drem, E-DRM, EDMR, EMDR, derm, derm-

Estonian

Noun

merd

1. partitive singular of meri

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• merjed

Etymology

mer +? -d (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?rd]
• Hyphenation: merd
• Rhymes: -?rd

Verb

merd

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of mer

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d/

Adjective

merd

1. generous
2. Synonym: camêr
3. brave
4. Synonym: mêrxas
5. dependable, reliable

Derived terms

• merdayî

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “merd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press