eard
See also: 'eard
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, *arduz, *arþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).
Cognate with Old Saxon ard, Old High German art (German Art). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin arō, Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Old East Slavic орати (orati), Russian ора́ть (orátʹ).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeard m
- homeland, native soil; one's home, a dwelling
- Ðis is mīn āgen ēþel, eard, and land
- This is my own country, home and land.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
- Wē sind eall cuman on þissum līfe, and ūre eard nis nā hēr, ac wē sind hēr swelċe weġfērende menn. Ān cymþ, ōðer færeþ. Sē biþ ācenned, sē ōðer forþfæreþ and rȳmþ him setl.
- We are all guests in this life, and our home is not here, but we're here as wayfaring people. One person comes, another goes. One is born, another dies and makes them room.
- earth, land
- state; station; condition; fate
Declension
editStrong u-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | eard | earda |
accusative | eard | earda |
genitive | earda | earda |
dative | earda | eardum |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editYola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English earþe, from Old English earþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu.
Noun
editeard
- Alternative form of erth
References
edit- 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 38
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