a native English suffix, denoting condition, formerly used in the formation of nouns:
hatred; kindred.
Origin
Middle English-rede, Old English-rǣden
Related Words
proofread
hate-read
lipread
hatred
sight-read
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-reda noun suffix denoting condition, as in hatred, kindred.
[Middle English -rede, Old English -rǣden]
-redsuffix, 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.)
-red/rɛd/suffix. Now rare.
ORIGIN: Repr. Old Englishræden condition, shortened in Middle English by the dropping of the final syll.
Forming nouns with the sense ‘condition of, relationship of’, as gossipred, hatred, kindred.
-red
Suffix
no longer productiveA suffix forming nouns of condition or state.
hatred
kindred
manred
sibred
Etymology
From Middle English-red, -redde, -rede, -reden, from Old English-rǣden (which see). Cognate with German-rat (as in Heirat (“wedding”)).