rerde

Middle English

Alternative forms

rerd, reryd
rourde, rewerd, rurd, rurde, ruerde (West Midland)
rorde, reorde (early West Midland)
rearde (Kent)
reord (Ormulum)

Etymology

From Old English reord, ġereord,^[1] from Proto-West Germanic *raʀdu. from Proto-Germanic *razdō.

The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms; forms without this reflect neuter ġereord (accusative ġereord) as well as apocope.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈreːrd(ə)/^[2]
(West Midland) IPA^(key): /ˈrøːrd(ə)/

Noun

rerde (uncountable) (poetic)

A voice; the sound of talking.
A yelp or cry.
A loud noise or clamour.

Descendants

English: reard (dialectal, obsolete)
Middle Scots: reird, rerde, rerd
- Scots: reird, raird, reerd

References

^ “rērd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 August 2018.
^ 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, § 3.1.1, page 8.

[1] “rērd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 August 2018.

[2] 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, § 3.1.1, page 8.

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