different between madden vs midden

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd?n/
• Homophone: Madden
• Rhymes: -æd?n

Verb

madden (third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened)

1. (transitive) To make angry.
2. (transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become furious.

Antonyms

• tranquilize

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, damned, demand, manded

Middle English

Alternative forms

• maddyn, mad, madde, made, medd, medde

Etymology

From mad +? -en (“infinitival suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mad?n/

Verb

madden

1. To be mad or insane; to be afflicted with insanity.
2. To be emotionally overwhelmed or consumed by mood or feelings.
3. To behave idiotically or stupidly; to display stupidity.
4. (rare) To make mad, crazy or insane; to madden.
5. (rare) To emotionally overwhelm.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: mad (obsolete)

References

• “m??dden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-09.

English

Etymology

From Middle English midding, myddyng, from Old Danish mykdyngja, (a compound of Old Norse myk, myki (“muck, manure”) and dyngja (“dung, dungpile”)), whence also Danish møgdynge and mødding, Norwegian mødding, dialectal Swedish mödding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d?n/
• Rhymes: -?d?n

Noun

midden (plural middens)

1. A dungheap.
2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
3. (archaeology) A prehistoric pile of bones and shells.
4. (zoology) A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
5. (zoology) An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.

Translations

Derived terms

• spiritual midden

Anagrams

• minded

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch midden, from Old Dutch *middi, from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med?yo-.

Pronunciation

Adverb

midden

1. in the middle

Derived terms

• in het midden van
• middenst

Luxembourgish

Adjective

midden

1. inflection of midd:
   1. strong/weak nominative/accusative masculine singular
   2. weak dative masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong/weak dative plural

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian midde, from Proto-West Germanic *midi.

Noun

midden c or n (no plural)

1. middle (part between beginning and end)

Further reading

• “midden (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011