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▪ I. † erd, n. Obs.
Forms: 1–2 eard, 2–4 erd(e, 3 ærd, ard, eærd, 3–4 herd, 4 ertd.
[OE. eard masc. is cogn. w. OS. ard masc. ‘dwelling’, OHG. art fem. ‘ploughing’, ON. örð fem. ‘harvest’:—OTeut. *ardu-z, ardâ, prob. f. WAryan root *ar to plough. For the sense cf. OE. búan to cultivate, inhabit.]
1. The land where one dwells; native land, home; a region, country.
Beowulf 2654 (Gr.) We rondas beren eft to earde. c1000Ags. Ps. ciii. 11 [civ. 12] (Gr.) Ofer þan heofonfuᵹelas healdað eardas. c1175Lamb. Hom. 13 Eower burh heo forbernað..and eard heo amerrað. c1205Lay. 29175 Inne France wes his ærd. c1250Gen. & Ex. 210 Paradis, An erd al ful of swete blis. a1300Cursor M. 12382 (Cott.) Til þai had geten þair herd a-gain. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1808, I am here [on] an erande in erdez vncouþe.
2. In OE.: ? State, condition. Hence (in ME.), disposition, temper.
With the ME. use cf. MHG. art masc., fem., mod.G. art fem. ‘manner, disposition’, which, however, Kluge regards as prob. of distinct etymology.
a1000Hymns vii. 97 (Gr.) Þar man us tyhhað on dæᵹ tweᵹen eardas. Drihtenes are oðð e deofles þeowet. c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 2988 Wiþ þat come forþ an amireld, A Sarrazin of wicked erd. c1340Cursor M. 11973 (Fairf.) Ihesus þat was meke of erde kepped noȝt to make his moder ferde.
3. Comb. † erd-folk, people of the land.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1880 God sente on ðat erdfolc swilc dred.
▪ II. erd(e etc.,
obs. forms of earth, etc. |