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 (ʾarḍ), 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

Borrowing from Arabic أَرْض‎ (ʾarḍ).

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

erd m

1. ground
2. earth