abraid

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine”), equivalent to a- +‎ braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

• abray

abraid (third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 90:

     But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l:

     But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old […]

4. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
5. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.

• abray

From Middle English abrede. More at abread.

abraid (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of abread

• The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition

• Arabid, Rabadi, rabadi

• IPA^(key): /ˈabˠɾˠədʲ/

abraid

1. (archaic, Munster) inflection of abair:
   1. third-person plural present indicative dependent
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

The standard modern form is deir siad in the indicative and go ndeire siad in the subjunctive.

Nonce corruption from Middle English upbreiden, from Old English upbreġdan.

• IPA^(key): /ʌˈbred/

abraid

1. to upbraid, criticize severely

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

abraid

1. Alternative form of abreed (“abroad”)

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