ferde

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]

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

ferde (comparative ferdébb, superlative legferdébb)

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

• ferde in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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”).

• ferd, fierd, fierde, furde, verd
• færde, feord, værde (Early Middle English)

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

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.

• >? English: ferd

• “fẹ̄̆rd(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ferde

1. alternative form of ferd (“fear”)

ferde (present tense ferdar, past tense ferda, past participle ferda, passive infinitive ferdast, present participle ferdande, imperative ferde/ferd)

1. alternative form of ferda

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːr.de/, [ˈfeːrˠ.de]

fērde

1. inflection of fēran:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive

From Middle English ferd.

• IPA^(key): /fɛrd/

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.

• Fearde

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 88