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)

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

From Middle English ferd.

• IPA^(key): /ɸiːd/
• Homophone: Fearde

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.

• 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