different between reed vs roed

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d, IPA^(key): /?i?d/
• Homophones: read, Reid, Reade, Read
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English rede, from Old English hr?od, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin.

Akin to Saterland Frisian Rait (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *???????????????????? (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm. They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius). The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.

Noun

reed (countable and uncountable, plural reeds)

1. (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
3. (countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
4. (countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
5. (countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
6. (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
7. (uncountable, architecture) Reeding.
8. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
9. Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
10. (poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.
11. (archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.
    1. A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English reden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

reed (third-person singular simple present reeds, present participle reeding, simple past and past participle reeded)

1. (transitive) To thatch.
2. To mill or mint with reeding.

Etymology 3

See ree.

Verb

reed

1. simple past tense and past participle of ree

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

• read

Noun

reed (plural reeds)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

References

Anagrams

• Rede, de re, deer, dere, dree, rede

Dutch

Pronunciation 1

• Rhymes: -e?t, -e?
• IPA^(key): /re?(t)/
• Homophone: reedt

Verb

reed

1. singular past indicative of rijden

Pronunciation 2

• Rhymes: -e?t
• IPA^(key): /re?t/
• Homophone: reedt

Verb

reed

1. first-person singular present indicative of reden
2. imperative of reden

Anagrams

• rede

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ræd

Noun

reed

1. (Chaucer) advice, counsel

Etymology 2

From Old English read

Adjective

reed

1. red
   • 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue

     Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.

     Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

Plautdietsch

Adjective

reed

1. ready. prepared

West Frisian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

reed c (plural redens, diminutive reedsje)

1. skate

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian *r?d, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raid?.

Noun

reed c (plural reden, diminutive reedsje)

1. driveway
2. journey

Further reading

• “reed (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English red, from Old English r?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud.

Adjective

reed

1. red

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

roe +? -ed

Adjective

roed (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Filled with roe.

Anagrams

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, doer, orde, redo, rode

Spanish

Verb

roed

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