bred

• IPA^(key): /bɹɛd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd
• Homophone: bread

bred

1. simple past and past participle of breed [from 1650s]

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”).

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “bred (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• 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

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
• English: (West Yorkshire) breead
• Geordie English: breed
• Scots: breid
• Yola: breed

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

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

Strong a-stem:

• bord

• 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

• 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)