different between harm vs qued

English

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)

1. physical injury; hurt; damage

2. emotional or figurative hurt
3. detriment; misfortune.

4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

Translations

Verb

harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Hmar, mahr

Icelandic

Noun

harm

1. indefinite accusative singular of harmur

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha???m?/

Noun

harm

1. h-prothesized form of arm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• harem, arme, herme

Etymology

From Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm.

Noun

harm (plural harms)

1. harm, injury, ruination

Descendants

• English: harm
• Scots: herm, hairm
• Yola: harrm

References

• “harm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz.

Noun

harm m

1. harm

Descendants

• Middle Low German: harm, herm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• quede, queed, quaad

Etymology

From Old English *cw?ad, *cw?d (“evil, bad”), from Proto-Germanic *kw?daz (“bad, ugly”) (whence also Old English cw?ad (“dung; excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g??dh- (“muck, excrement, dung, filth, disgust, vermin”).

Cognate with Old Frisian qu?d (“bad, evil”), whence Saterland Frisian kwood (“evil; bad”), West Frisian kwea. Also cognate with Dutch kwaad (“evil, bad”), German Low German quaad (“bad; evil; sinful; mean; angry”), Middle High German qu?t (“evil; bad”).

Related also to Old English cw?ad (“dung; dirt; filth”, noun), Old Frisian qu?t (“dung; manure”), Middle Low German qu?t (“dirt; filth”), German Kot (“dung; feces; filth; muck”).

Adjective

qued

1. bad; evil [from the 13th c.]
   • Ludus Coventriae (ante 1475)

     The body that was heavy as lead, be the Jews never so qued, A-riseth from grave..

   • Sidrak and Bokkus (ante 1500)

     Young and old, good and qued.

Noun

qued (uncountable)

1. evil; harm; wickedness [from the 13th c.]
2. an evil person or being, especially the devil