ruden

See also: Ruden, rüden, Rüden, and rûdəñ

English

Etymology

From rude +‎ -en.

Verb

ruden (third-person singular simple present rudens, present participle rudening, simple past and past participle rudened)

(transitive) To make rude; make raw, simplified, or more robust; toughen.
- 1984, The Poetic Works of Charles Harpur:
  None ever voyaged the wild sea of Life / Less warped and rudened by its stormy strife, […]

Anagrams

nuder, under-, urned, unred, runed, under, Düren, Duren, Rendu

Danish

Noun

ruden c

definite singular of rude

Middle English

Alternative forms

rodye

Etymology

Inherited from Old English rudian, from Proto-West Germanic *rodēn, *rudēn, from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti; equivalent to rode (“ruddiness”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare rudnen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrudən/

Verb

ruden (third-person singular simple present rudeth, present participle rudende, rudynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle ruded)

(rare) To redden; to become or make red.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *ruden* (weak in -ed)
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) ruden, rude

1st-person singular	rude	ruded
2nd-person singular	rudest	rudedest
3rd-person singular	rudeth	ruded
subjunctive singular	rude	ruded
imperative singular	rude	—

plural¹	ruden, rude	rudeden, rudede
imperative plural	rudeth, rude	—

participles	rudynge, rudende	ruded, yruded

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

English: rud

References

“ruden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.