-red

From Middle English -rede, -red, -redde, -reden, from Old English -rǣden (which see). Cognate with German -rat (as in Heirat (“wedding”)).

-red

1. (no longer productive) A suffix forming nouns of condition or state.

   hatred

   kindred

   manred

   sibred

• DRE, Der, Der., EDR, ERD, RDE, der, erd

-red

1. alternative form of -rede

• -raþ, -reþ

• IPA^(key): /red/

-red

1. alternative form of -raþ

From Proto-Celtic *-retom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hret-,^[1] whence also rhedeg (“to run”). Cognate with Old Irish -rad.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /rɛd/

-red f

1. Forms abstract nouns.

   ‎gwaith (“work”) + ‎-red → ‎gweithred (“action”)

   ‎lled (“width”) + ‎-red → ‎lledred (“latitude”)

   ‎cylch (“circle”) + ‎-red → ‎cylchred (“cycle”)