bred

• IPA^(key): /bɹɛd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd
• Homophone: bread

bred

1. simple past and past participle of breed

From Middle English bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”). More at braid.

bred (plural breds)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of braid (“board, shelf, plank”)

• EBRD

From English bread.

bred

1. bread

From Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

• IPA^(key): /breːˀð/, [ˈb̥ʁæˀð], [ˈb̥ʁæðˀ]

bred (neuter bredt, plural and definite singular attributive brede, comparative bredere, superlative (predicative) bredest, superlative (attributive) bredeste)

1. broad, wide

• vid

• smal

• “bred,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Danish bræd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz, cognate with Norwegian bredd, Swedish brädd, Old English breord. Related to *bruzdaz (“thorn”) (Danish brod) and possibly also *burdą (“board”) (Danish bord).

• IPA^(key): /breð(ˀ)/, [ˈb̥ʁæðˀ], [ˈb̥ʁæð]

bred c (singular definite bredden, plural indefinite bredder)

1. shore
2. bank

• “bred,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

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bred (verbal noun breddal, past participle breddit)

1. to hackle

• breddey (“hackling”)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bred	vred	mred
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Old English brēad, from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.

• bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid
• (early) bread, bræd
• (Kentish) bryad, bryead

• IPA^(key): /brɛːd/

bred

2. bread, pastry
3. variety of bread
4. food, nourishment
5. livelihood, sustenance

• (bread): payn

• bredles
• gyngebred
• holy bred

• English: bread
• Geordie English: breed
• Scots: breid
• Yola: breed

• “brēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

bred

1. Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

• brei

From Old Norse breiðr.

bred (neuter singular bredt, definite singular and plural brede, comparative bredere, indefinite superlative bredest, definite superlative bredeste)

1. wide, broad

• smal

• bredbånd

• “bred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bræd

From Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą, derived from the e-grade *bʰredʰóm, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-dʰ-, extended form of *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Cognates include German Brett, Yiddish ברעט (bret).

• IPA^(key): /bred/

bred n

1. surface
2. plank, board
3. table, tablet

• bord

• briden
• fōtbred
• handbred
• rihtebred
• tæppelbred
• weaxbred

• bridd (possibly)

• Middle English: bred, bræd, brede (from the oblique cases)
  • English: bred, brade, braid (dialectal)
  • Scots: bred, braid, brad

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreːd/, [ˈbrɛːd]

brēd

1. broad, wide

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: briad

  Goesharde: briid

  Halligen: briad

  Mooring: briidj

  Sylt: breer

  Wiedingharde: briidj

• Saterland Frisian: breed
• West Frisian: brie

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

brēd

1. broad, wide

• Middle Low German: *brêd
  • German Low German:

    Altmärkisch: breet

    Low Prussian, Westphalian (Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch): breed

    Westphalian:

    Dortmundisch: braẹ̆t

    Sauerländisch: bräit, brait (Elpe, Felbecke, Finnentrop, Attendorn, Elspe), brǟt (Niedersfeld)

    East Westphalian: breit (Lippe)

    Eastphalian: breit (Wedemark)

From Old Swedish brēþer, from Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

• Rhymes: -eːd

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bred (comparative bredare, superlative bredast)

1. wide, broad (having great width)
2. broad (having great extent)

   bred kunskap

   broad knowledge

Inflection of bred
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	bred	bredare	bredast
Neuter singular	brett	bredare	bredast
Plural	breda	bredare	bredast
Masculine plural3	brede	bredare	bredast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	brede	bredare	bredaste
All	breda	bredare	bredaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

• bredbent
• bredvid
• gå den breda vägen

• bredd (“width”)
• bredda (“to widen”)

• smal
• vid

bred

1. imperative of breda

• bred in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bred in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bred in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)