different between stepped vs trod

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?pt/

Verb

stepped

1. simple past tense and past participle of step

Adjective

stepped (not comparable)

1. Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.

   a stepped key

   a stepped gear

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??d/

Rhymes: -?d

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??d/

Etymology 1

See tread.

Verb

trod

1. simple past tense of tread

Etymology 2

From Middle English trod, past participle of treden; see tread. Compare Norwegian trod (“a path”).

Verb

trod (third-person singular simple present trods, present participle trodding, simple past and past participle trodded)

1. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
   • 1813, The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803

     Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason

   • 1962, American Motorcyclist, February, page 16

     Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.

Derived terms

• downtrod

References

• trod in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Robert E. Lewis (ed.) (1996) Middle English Dictionary?^[3], volume 9, page 1106

Etymology 3

From Old English trodu (“track, trace”), from the same source as tread.

Noun

trod (plural trods)

1. A track or pathway.

Anagrams

• Dort, dort, dtor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tro (alternative spelling, 1959-2012)

Verb

trod

1. (non-standard since 2012) past tense of tre, treda and trede
2. (non-standard since 2012) past tense of trå

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish trot, from Old Irish troit (“fight, battle, quarrel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to thrust, push”), related to Proto-Germanic *þraut? (“affliction, agony, struggle”).

Noun

trod m (genitive singular troid, plural troid)

1. verbal noun of troid
2. quarrel
3. reproof, rebuke, scolding

   Synonyms: càineadh, cronachadh

Mutation

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “trod”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 377