erd

From Middle English erd (“native land or region; homeland, abode; dwelling or home”), from Old English eard (“native place, country, region, dwelling-place, estate, cultivated ground, earth, land”)

• IPA^(key): /ɛɹd/

erd

1. (dialectal, rare) Alternative form of earth
   • 1887, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn, A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2)‎:

     Thi will on erd be wrought, eek as it is wrought in heven ay.

• -red, DRE, Der, Der., RED, Red, der, red

From Old English eard (“land, country, region; dwelling, home”), from Proto-Germanic *arþiz.

• ard, arde, urde

• IPA^(key): /ɛrd/, /ard/

erd (plural erdes)

1. Native land, homeland, home
   • The Owl and the Nightingale:

     Ich fare hom to min Erde.

   • Cleanness:

     ... ever hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest.

   • Wars of Alexander:

     Excludit out of his erd.

• Middle English: art (“locality, district”)

From Old English eard (“nature, kind”), from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Often regarded as the selfsame word above, used in a different sense.

erd (plural erdes)

1. character; nature; disposition

According to Justi from Arabic أَرْض‎ (ʾarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́-. Though Ačaryan denies this and claims derivation from Armenian արտ (art, “arable land”).

erd

1. ground, earth

• Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “արտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾd]
• Hyphenation: erd

Borrowing from Arabic ارض‎ (arḍ).

erd m

1. ground
2. earth