different between mead vs merd

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d, IPA^(key): /mi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u (“honey; honey wine”).

Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Alternative forms

• meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Derived terms

• mead-bench
• mead cup
• meaded
• meadery
• mead hall

Translations

See also

• bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
• ambrosia (noun)
• mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English m?d. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.

Noun

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love —:

     Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound […] .

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

     'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

     There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

Derived terms

• Temple Meads
• Thamesmead

Anagrams

• ADEM, ADME, Adem, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

Spanish

Verb

mead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mear.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mede, from Old English m?d.

Noun

mead

1. meadow

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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