eard

== Middle English == === Noun === eard (Early Middle English) alternative form of erd == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, *arduz, *arþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Cognate with Old Saxon ard, Old High German art (German Art). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin arō, Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Old East Slavic орати (orati), Russian ора́ть (orátʹ). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /æ͜ɑrd/, [æ͜ɑrˠd] === Noun === eard m homeland, native soil; one's home, a dwelling c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany" Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church earth, land state; station; condition; fate ==== Declension ==== Strong u-stem/a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== Eardgȳþ eardian ==== Related terms ==== eorþe erian yrþ ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: erd, erde, herde, hurde (Worcestershire), ard, ærd, eard (Early Middle English) ==== References ==== Hogg, Richard; Fulk, R. D. (2011), A Grammar of Old English, volume 2: Morphology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130 == Yola == === Noun === eard alternative form of erth === 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 38