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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)
- (intransitive) To become red or redder.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
- But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
- 1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
- Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
- 1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32,
- When the sun-god saw that, and the reddening sky
- And the waning moon seeming to thaw
- He called the Hours to yoke the horses.
- 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
- (transitive) To make red or redder.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4, [1]
- God redden your pale blood!
- 1942, Wallace Stevens, "Country Words" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Knopf, 1971, p. 207,
- […] If the cloud that hangs
- Upon the heart and round the mind
- Cleared from the north and in that height
- The sun appeared and reddened great
- Belshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rude
- With rubies then, attend me now.
- 1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, 1974, p. 19,
- Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele,
- Crown your hair with ivy
- Turn your fingers green with bryony
- Redden your walls with berries.
- 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket, Act I, Scene 4, [1]
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Translations[edit]
to become red
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to make red
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Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
redden
- (transitive) to save, rescue
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of redden (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | redden | |||
past singular | redde | |||
past participle | gered | |||
infinitive | redden | |||
gerund | redden n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | red | redde | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | redt | redde | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | redt | redde | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | redt | redde | ||
3rd person singular | redt | redde | ||
plural | redden | redden | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | redde | redde | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | redden | redden | ||
imperative sing. | red | |||
imperative plur.1 | redt | |||
participles | reddend | gered | ||
1) Archaic. |
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Maltese[edit]
Root |
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r-d-n |
5 terms |
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic رَدَّنَ (raddana).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
redden (imperfect jredden, past participle mredden)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of redden | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | reddint | reddint | redden | reddinna | reddintu | reddnu | |
f | reddnet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nredden | tredden | jredden | nreddnu | treddnu | jreddnu | |
f | tredden | |||||||
imperative | redden | reddnu |
Middle Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Verb[edit]
redden
Inflection[edit]
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “redden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
redden
- To save or rescue; to remove from penury or captivity.
- Floris and Blauncheflur
- Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde.
- With that he saved the children from death.
- Floris and Blauncheflur
- To release from injury or trouble.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of redden (weak in -de)
infinitive | (to) redden, redde | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | redde | redde | |
2nd-person singular | reddest | reddest | |
3rd-person singular | reddeth | redde | |
subjunctive singular | redde | ||
imperative singular | — | ||
plural1 | redden, redde | redden, redde | |
imperative plural | reddeth, redde | — | |
participles | reddynge, reddende | red, yred |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “redden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
redden
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