different between fyrd vs ferd

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd. Doublet of ferd.

Noun

fyrd (plural fyrds)

1. (historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
   • Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation:

     Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.

Related terms

• landfyrd
• shipfyrd

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyrd/, [fyr?d]

Noun

fyrd f

1. Alternative form of fierd

Declension

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.