different between udder vs edder

English

Etymology

From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ?der (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *?dar?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ówHd?r? (“udder”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ???? (??dhar), Ancient Greek ????? (oûthar), Latin ?ber.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)

Noun

udder (plural udders)

1. An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.
2. (slang, impolite) A woman's breast.

Translations

Anagrams

• dured

Middle English

Alternative forms

• uddyr, iddyr, uther

Etymology

From Old English ?der, from Proto-Germanic *?dar?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ówHd?r?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ud?r/, /?uð?r/

Noun

udder (plural uddres)

1. udder (mammary gland of an animal)
2. (rare) The udder when served as food.

Descendants

• English: udder
• Scots: udder, uther, ether

References

• “udder, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• odder

Etymology

From Old Norse oddr, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz.

Noun

udder m

1. sharp point

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: udd

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

Verb

edder (third-person singular simple present edders, present participle eddering, simple past and past participle eddered)

1. (obsolete) To bind the top interweaving edder.

Etymology 2

Variant of adder.

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. An adder or snake.

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Etymology 3

From Middle English edre (“a vein, blood vessel”), from Old English ?dre (“a vein, artery; sinew”), from Proto-West Germanic *?dr? (“vein”).

Cognates include (from Germanic) Old Saxon -?ðara (Dutch ader), Old High German ?dra (German Ader), Old Norse æðr (Swedish åder); (from Indo-European) Ancient Greek ???? (êtor, “heart”), Latin uterus, Old Irish inathar (“entrails”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d.?/

Noun

edder (plural edders)

1. (rare, dialect or obsolete) A blood vessel.

Anagrams

• dered, dreed