berd
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bert (“plank, tabletop”), from Old Dutch *bret, from Proto-Germanic *bredą. Cognate with German Brett (“board, plank”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛrt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: berd
- Rhymes: -ɛrt
Noun
berd n (plural berden, diminutive berdje n) (widely archaic outside idioms; perhaps still locally in Belgium)
Usage notes
- Now chiefly restricted to the fixed expression te berde brengen (“to bring to the table, to address”).
Derived terms
Related terms
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English beard,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
berd (plural berdes)
Related terms
Descendants
- English: beard
- Middle Scots: beird, berd, baird
- Yola: bearde
- → Anglo-Norman: berd
- →⇒ Anglo-Norman: barder (verb) (merged with Old French barbier)
References
- ^ “bērd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ Aitken, A[dam] J., Macafee, Caroline, editors (2002), “Part One: Vowel Phonology of Scots to 1375”, in The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 3.1, page 8.
- ^ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)[1], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., , § 59, page 89.