| 释义 |
-red
suffix, representing OE. rǽden condition, which was freely used as a second element in combs. In ME. the full form -rǣden, -rēden, -rāden was by the general dropping of final -n reduced to -rēde, and this was subsequently shortened to -red. (In some cases the -ēde was confused with the synonymous -hēde.) In Sc., by an early metathesis of n, the suffix assumed the form -rend (-rand), later -rent (-rant).
Of the numerous words thus formed in OE. (see Bosw.-Toller, s.v.) only a few were retained in ME., as brother-, fer-, folk-, frend-, love-, man-, sibrede(n, -red), repr. OE. bróðor-, ᵹefér-, folc-, fréond-, luf-, man(n)-, sibrǽden. In addition to these, ME. had a few forms not recorded in OE., as felawrede, neȝeburrede, and the surviving representatives of the class, gossipred, hatred and kindred. (Cousinred, used by Scott, is a hybrid and app. an individual formation.) |