ferd
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English ferde, feord, furd, from Old English fyrd, fierd, ferd (“army, host, company”), from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey, expedition”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Old Frisian ferd, fart (“an expedition, journey”), Old High German fart (“journey”) (German Fahrt), Danish færd (“voyage, travel”). More at fare.
Noun
ferd (plural ferds)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Impetus, speed.
- (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A journey.
- He's on a ferd. Whatǃ? He's ferdedǃ.
- (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
- 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle:
- With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd.
(With thee will I go as fellows in a ferd.)
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- (obsolete or historical) A military expedition.
- c. 1050, The Paris Psalter
- Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd...
- (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd...)
- c. 1050, The Paris Psalter
- (obsolete or historical) A company, band, or group.
- 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 ferd, all of fierce vessel.)
- 1986, Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89:
- For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]
- c. 1400, The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy
Usage notes
- This word in its Anglo-Saxon form, fyrd, is used historically in a technical sense.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English feren (“to fear”). More at fear.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
ferd f or m (definite singular ferda or ferden, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)
- journey, voyage, expedition
- være i verd med (also written as iferd): to be on the point of, to be busy with
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæːr/, /fɛrd/
Noun
ferd f (definite singular ferda, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)
- journey, travel
- Korleis var ferda di til Sambandsstatane?
- How was your journey to the United States?
- group of people
- vere i verd med: to be on the point of, to be busy with
Derived terms
References
- “ferd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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