reddとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Fusion of 中期英語 reden (“to clean up, to clear”) and redden (“to save, rescue, deliver, rid, free, clear”). The former is from 古期英語 ġerǣdan (“to put in order, arrange, prepare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garaidijan, from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to arrange”); the latter, from 古期英語 hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną. More at rid and ready.

The Scottish and Northern English senses (especially 3.5 “tidy up, clear away”) are likely from Old Norse ryðja (“to clear, free, empty”), from Proto-Germanic *rudjaną, having conflated with the native word reden (see above); if so, that would make them related to Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rydde (“to clear, tidy”).

The Pennsylvania (Dutch English) sense is from Middle Low German redden, cognate with Dutch redden (“to save, rescue”), both ultimately also from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną (“to loosen, set free, save”). The meaning is clearly historically conflated and related to the native English word, however their exact origin and relationship are unclear.

別の表記

• red

動詞

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redd or redded)(obsolete or dialectal)

1. To free from entanglement.
2. To free from embarrassment.
3. (Scotland and Northern England)
   1. To fix boundaries.
   2. To comb hair.
   3. To separate combatants.
   4. To settle, usually a quarrel.
   5. To tidy up, clear away.
4. (Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.

   I've got to redd the place before your mother gets back.

派生語

• outredd, outred
• redd up

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “redd”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

語源 3

Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.

名詞

redd (plural redds)

1. A spawning nest made by a fish.
   • 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches, National Geographic (March 2007), 32,

     A female chinook salmon digs her redd, or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.

語源 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

redd

1. simple past and past participle of rede
2. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of read
   • The Works of John Knox (1514–72), published 1841

     Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God