rud

See also: Rud, RUD, and rúd

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʌd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Etymology 1

From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (to be ruddy) (compare rudu (redness)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (red) (compare red; cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad).

Noun

rud (uncountable)

  1. redness; blush
  2. ruddle; red ochre

Verb

rud (third-person singular simple present ruds, present participle rudding, simple past and past participle rudded)

  1. (intransitive) To become red; redden.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make red.

Noun

rud (plural ruds)

  1. Alternative form of rudd (fish).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rud in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams


Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

Pronunciation

Noun

rud m (genitive singular ruda, nominative plural rudaí)

  1. thing
    1. material object
    2. matter, circumstance; act, event, affair, idea
  2. person, creature
  3. means, substance
    1. benefit, gain
    2. thing of consequence
    3. way of acting
  4. thing asked for
  5. concern, sorrow
  6. affection
  7. wit, understanding

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • anrud (great quantity or number; too much concern, excessive desire)
  • céard (what, interrogative)
  • éard (what, relative)
  • fo-rud (odd, incidental thing)
  • rud beag (a little, a bit)
  • séard (what, relative)
  • Tadhg Ó Rudaí (Joe Bloggs, John Q. Public)

References

  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 44
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 26
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 41

Further reading


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rut/
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification: rud
  • Homophone: ród

Noun

rud

  1. genitive plural of ruda

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rˠut̪/

Noun

rud m (genitive singular ruid, plural rudan)

  1. thing

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), rud”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), rét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *rǫdъ (Bulgarian руд (rud), Polish rędzy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûːd/

Adjective

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. curly, shaggy, locky
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *rudъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûːd/

Adjective

rȗd (definite rȗdī, Cyrillic spelling ру̑д)

  1. reddish-brown, carroty, foxy
Declension

References

  • rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • rud” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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