ferde

Hungarian

Etymology

From the fered variant of fürdik (“to bathe”, the word family originally expressing “to turn, revolve, spin”) +‎ -e (obsolete present-participle suffix).[1] Its current meaning goes back to the sense “to turn round, diverge, deviate from straight”, compare fordul.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛrdɛ]
  • Hyphenation: fer‧de
  • Rhymes: -dɛ

Adjective

ferde (comparative ferdébb, superlative legferdébb)

  1. slanting, inclined, oblique
  2. leaning (to one side), tilted, crooked
  3. sideways (glance)
  4. perverted (view), awkward (behavior)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
Compound words
  • ferdeszög
  • ferdetest
Expressions
  • ferde szemmel néz

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References
  1. ferde in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ferde in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fierd, fyrd, feord, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”); compare faren. Forms with a final vowel are from the Old English oblique forms.

Cognate with Old Frisian ferd, fart (“an expedition, journey”), Old High German fart (“journey”) (German Fahrt), Danish færd (“voyage, travel”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfeːrd(ə)/, /ˈfɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈfiːrd(ə)/

Noun

ferde (plural ferdes or ferden)

  1. An army or host.
    • 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle:
      With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd.
      With you I will go as fellows in an army.
  2. A troop; a portion of an army.
    • c. 1400, The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy:
      And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe, all of fuerse vesell.
      (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a troop, all of fierce vessel.)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (by extension) A band or company.
  4. (rare, Early Middle English) A military expedition.
Descendants
  • >? English: ferd
References

Noun

ferde

  1. Alternative form of ferd (“fear”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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  1. Alternative form of ferda

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ferd.

Noun

ferde

  1. fear
    Synonym: vear
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:
      Th' hap, an ee ferde, an ee crie, was Tommeen.
      The chance, and the fear, and the cry, was Tommeen.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 88
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