different between meed vs merd

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /mi?d/
• Homophone: mead
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English m?d, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-Germanic *mizd? (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misd?éh?, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German mede (“payment, wages, reward”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic ???????????????????? (mizd?, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”), Ancient Greek ?????? (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (m?zda, “reward”), Sanskrit ????? (m??há), Sanskrit ??? (m??há), Avestan ????????????????????? (m?žda).

Noun

meed (plural meeds)

1. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,
     Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence,
     Just Heaven permitted her by one good deed
     To work her own redemption, after death.

   • 1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress:

     Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.

   • 1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões

     Better to merit and the meed to miss,
     than, lacking merit, every meed possess.

2. A gift; bribe.
3. (dated) Merit or desert; worth.
   • 1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16:

     In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:meed.

Derived terms

• meedful
• meedless

Etymology 2

From Middle English meden, from Old English *m?dian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-Germanic *mizd?n? (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misd?- (“to pay”). Cognate with Middle Low German m?den (“to reward”), German mieten (“to rent”).

Verb

meed (third-person singular simple present meeds, present participle meeding, simple past and past participle meeded)

1. (transitive) To reward; bribe.
2. (transitive) To deserve; merit.

Anagrams

• Deem, Mede, deem, deme

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• mied (southern Moselle Franconian)
• möd (Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Old High German muodi, from Proto-Germanic *m?þijaz, West Germanic variant of *m?þaz.

Adjective

meed

1. (northern Moselle Franconian) tired

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

meed

1. singular past indicative of mijden

Anagrams

• mede

Estonian

Noun

meed

1. nominative plural of mesi

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

meed

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Plautdietsch

Adjective

meed

1. tired, weary, fatigued, fagged

   hee wia sea meed

   he was very tired

Antonyms

• munta (brisk, lively)

Derived terms

• äwameed (overtired)
• huntmeed (dog-tired)

See also

• schleeprich (sleepy)
• hoojoonen (to sigh, to yawn)
• enoolent (tired of, sick of)
• kjnirr (weary)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

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