Ferdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Either from 中期英語 ferde (“went, fared”), past participle of faren, or from 中期英語 ferde (“army”), from 古期英語 fierd; see fyrd.

別の表記

• fard, faird

名詞

ferd (plural ferds)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
   • 1775, Baillie, Letters:

     It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.

   • 1832, John Nevay, “The Cotter's Birth-Day”, in Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy, editors, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, page 381:

     A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn.

参照

• “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

語源 2

From 中期英語 feren (“to fear”). More at fear.

名詞

ferd (usually uncountable, plural ferds)

1. (obsolete) Fear.

形容詞

ferd (comparative more ferd, superlative most ferd)

1. (obsolete) Afraid.
   • 1804, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Tristrem:

     Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;

語源 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

形容詞

ferd (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Fourth.
   • 1565, Proces of Divorce twixt Erle Bothwell and his Wife:

     George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd.

   • 1571, J Chepman, Decreet of Spulzie:

     Gevin vunder our signet, at Edinburgh, the xxiij day of Marche, and of our regnne the ferd yer.

   • 1614, Register of Town Council of Edinburgh, vol x:

     The first & secund regents sall haif quarterlie ilkane threttein schilling four penneis. The thrid fyfteen sehillings and the ferd and principall twenty shillings.

アナグラム

• Fred, derf

名詞

ferd f

1. alternative form of fierd

語形変化

Strong i-stem:

別の表記

• feerd, feerde, ferde, ferid

発音

• IPA: /fɛːrd/

名詞

ferd (uncountable)

1. fear, terror

派生語

• ferdful
• ferdnesse

派生した語

• Yola: ferde

参照

• “fērd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

動詞

ferd

1. past participle of feren (“to frighten”).

語源 2

名詞

ferd

1. alternative form of ferde (“army”)