dreade

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English þræd, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drɛːd/

Noun

dreade

  1. thread

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36