reddとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Fusion of 中期英語 redden (“to save, rescue, deliver, rid, free, clear”), from 古期英語 hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną and 中期英語 reden (“to clean up, clear”), from 古期英語 ġerǣdan (“to put in order, arrange, prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to arrange”). More at rid, ready.

別の表記

• red

動詞

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redd or redded)

1. (obsolete) To free from entanglement.
2. (obsolete) To free from embarrassment.
3. (Scotland and Northern England) To fix boundaries.
4. (Scotland and Northern England) To comb hair.
5. (Scotland and Northern England) To separate combatants.
6. (Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
7. (Scotland and Northern England) To tidy up, clear away.

派生語

• outredd, outred
• redd up

参照

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

語源 2

From 中期英語, from Old Norse ryðja, Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden. In modern use probably actually a back-formation from ready.

別の表記

• red

動詞

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

1. (transitive, Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.

   I've got to redd the place before your mother gets back.

参照

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

語源 3

Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.

名詞

redd (plural redds)

1. A spawning nest made by a fish.
   • 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches, National Geographic (March 2007), 32,

     A female chinook salmon digs her redd, or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.

語源 4

From the archaic verb rede or read.

動詞

redd

1. simple past and past participle of rede
2. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of read
   • The Works of John Knox, 1841

     Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God