erd

See also: Erd, ERD, and -erd

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛɾd/

Etymology 1

A variant of earth.

Noun

erd

1. (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth.

Derived terms

• erd shrew

Related terms

• erdvark

Etymology 2

A clipping of erd shrew.

Noun

erd

1. (zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.

Anagrams

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., EDR, RDE, RED, Red, der, red

Anagrams

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., EDR, RDE, RED, Red, der, red

Middle English

Alternative forms

• erde, herde
• hurde (Worcestershire)
• ard, ærd, eard (Early Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English eard (“country, home, nature”), from Proto-West Germanic *ardi, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Doublet of art (“locality, district”). Some senses are due to conflation with erthe (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̝ːrd/

Noun

erd (uncountable) (especially Early Middle English or Northern)

1. One's homeland or native residence.
   • The Owl and the Nightingale:

     Ich fare hom to min Erde.

   • Cleanness:

     ... ever hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest.

   • Wars of Alexander:

     Excludit out of his erd.

2. A country, province, or region.
3. The planet Earth, especially as humanity's home.
4. The ground or its soil.
5. (rare) Any dwelling or home.
6. (rare) Character, disposition.

Related terms

• middelerd
• middenerd

References

• “ē̆rd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “ē̆rd, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-.

Noun

erd ?

1. Earth (planet)
2. ground, earth

Further reading

• Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “erd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 177b

Scots

Etymology

From erde, northern variant of Middle English erthe; compare Old English eard (“homeland; earth”).

Noun

erd (plural erds)

1. (archaic or obsolete) the Earth

   by a’ the erd

   for all the world

2. soil, earth

Verb

erd (third-person singular simple present erds, present participle erdin, simple past and past participle erdit)

1. (obsolete) to inter, to bury
2. to cover with earth, to store underground

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾd]
• Hyphenation: erd

Noun

erd m

1. ground
2. earth