different between rid vs wid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Fusion of Middle English redden (“to deliver from, rid, clear”) (from Old English hreddan (“to deliver, rescue, free from, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjan? (“to save, deliver”)) and Middle English ridden (“to clear away, remove obstructions”) (from Old English ?eryddan (“to clear land”), from Proto-Germanic *riudijan? (“to clear”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd?- (“to clear land”).

Akin to Old Frisian hredda (“to save”), Dutch redden (“to save, deliver”), German retten (“to save, deliver”), roden (“to clear”) and reuten (“to clear”), Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, empty”), Old Norse hr?ðja (“to clear, strip”). More at redd.

Adjective

rid (not comparable) (not used attributively)

1. Released from an obligation, problem, etc. (usually followed by of).

Translations

Verb

rid (third-person singular simple present rids, present participle ridding, simple past rid or ridded, past participle rid or ridded or ridden) (ridden is rare and nonstandard)

1. (transitive) To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance.

   Synonyms: deliver, disencumber

   • 1170, King Henry II (offhand remark)

     Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.

2. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To banish.
   • 2008, John H. Goodwin, The Reluctant Spy (page 293)

     Worst of all were the leeches. The soldiers had managed to rid them from the camp interiors, but once you ventured out on patrol and into the wetlands, they were everywhere.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To kill.

Derived terms

• get rid of

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

rid

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of ride
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:

     "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “rid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• D.R.I., DRI, Dir., IDR, dir, dir.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?d/, [?ið?]

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rid

1. imperative of ride

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

rid

1. present tense of ride
2. imperative of ride

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hríð.

Noun

rid f (definite singular rida or ridi, indefinite plural rider, definite plural ridene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by ri

Romanian

Etymology

From French ride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rid/

Noun

rid n (plural riduri)

1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, line (on face)

Declension

Further reading

• rid in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

rid

1. imperative of rida.

English

Etymology

Variant of with.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?d, IPA^(key): /w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Preposition

wid

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
   • 1893, Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [1]

     “An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”

   • 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, [2]

     Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.

   • 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [3]

     Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home

     Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,

     Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!

Related terms

• See with

Anagrams

• D.W.I., DWI, IWD, WDI, dwi-

Belizean Creole

Alternative forms

• wit

Preposition

wid

1. with

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 372.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?daz. Cognate with Old Frisian w?d, Old Saxon w?do and Old Dutch w?do, Old High German w?t, Old Norse víðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/

Adjective

w?d

1. wide, far

Declension

Derived terms

• w?ds?þ

Descendants

• Middle English: wid, wyd
  • English: wide
  • Scots: wid, wyd