warder

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ) Homophone: water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”). ==== Noun ==== warder (plural warders) A guard, especially in a prison. One who or that which wards or repels. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above. ==== Noun ==== warder (plural warders) (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,[2] When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind, Casts down his Warder to arrest them there; === Anagrams === drawer, redraw, reward, warred == Champenois == === Alternative forms === (Troyen) gadier, gaidier (Langrois) gaidier (Rémois) wardeu === Etymology === Inherited from Old French warder, from Early Medieval Latin wardāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wa(r).de/ === Verb === warder to protect; to guard to look at === References === Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎[3] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎[4] (in French), Troyes Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎[5] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109 == Old French == === Verb === warder (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) alternative form of guarder ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide. == Picard == === Etymology === From Old French warder. === Verb === warder to keep ==== Conjugation ====