erd

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɝd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛɾd/

A variant of earth reinforced by Middle English erd (“home”).

erd

1. (dialect, rare) Alternative form of earth

• erd shrew

• erdvark

A clipping of erd shrew.

erd

1. (zoology) The common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse or erd shrew.

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

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

• ard, arde, urde

From Old English eard (“country, home, nature”), from Proto-West Germanic *ardi, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz. Doublet of art (“locality, district”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛrd/, /ɛːrd/, /ard/

erd (plural erdes)

1. Native land, homeland
   • 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.

2. Dwelling, home, habitation.
3. Character; nature; disposition

• English: erd (in part)

From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), from Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́-.

erd ?

1. Earth (planet)
2. ground, earth

• Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences
• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “erd”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 177b

From erde, northern variant of Middle English erthe; compare Old English eard (“homeland; earth”).^[1]

erd (plural erds)

1. (archaic or obsolete) the Earth

   by a’ the erd

   for all the world

2. soil, earth

erd (third-person singular simple present erds, present participle erdin, simple past erdit, past participle erdit)

1. (obsolete) to inter, to bury
2. to cover with earth, to store underground

Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: erd

erd

1. ground
2. earth