# bred
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɹɛd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛd
* Homophone: bread

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

bred
* simple past and past participle of breed

##### Derived terms

* courtbred
* crossbred
* earthbred
* half-bred
* hellbred
* highbred
* homebred
* lowbred
* nonbred
* nonbred
* purebred
* sib-bred
* standardbred
* straightbred
* thoroughbred
* true-bred
* unbred
* unbred
* underbred
* xbred

### Etymology 2

From Middle English bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”). More at braid.

#### Noun

bred (plural breds)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of braid (“board, shelf, plank”)

### Anagrams

* EBRD

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English bread.

### Noun

bred
* bread

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /breːˀð/, [ˈb̥ʁæˀð], [ˈb̥ʁæðˀ]

#### Adjective

bred (neuter bredt, plural and definite singular attributive brede, comparative bredere, superlative (predicative) bredest, superlative (attributive) bredeste)
* broad, wide

##### Synonyms

* vid

##### Antonyms

* smal

##### References

* “bred,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

From Old Danish bræd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz, cognate with Norwegian bredd, Swedish brädd, Old English breord. Related to *bruzdaz (“thorn”) (Danish brod) and possibly also *burdą (“board”) (Danish bord).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /breð(ˀ)/, [ˈb̥ʁæðˀ], [ˈb̥ʁæð]

#### Noun

bred c (singular definite bredden, plural indefinite bredder)
* shore
* bank

##### References

* “bred,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Manx
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

bred (verbal noun breddal, past participle breddit)
* to hackle

#### Related terms

* breddey (“hackling”)

### Mutation
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English brēad, from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.

#### Alternative forms

* bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid
* (early) bread, bræd
* (Kentish) bryad, bryead

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brɛːd/

#### Noun

bred
* bread, pastry
* variety of bread
* food, nourishment
* livelihood, sustenance

##### Synonyms

* (bread): payn

##### Related terms

* bredles
* gyngebred
* holy bred

##### Descendants

* English: bread
* Geordie English: breed
* Scots: breid
* Yola: breed

##### References

* “brēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bred
* Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* brei

### Etymology

From Old Norse breiðr.

### Adjective

bred (neuter singular bredt, definite singular and plural brede, comparative bredere, indefinite superlative bredest, definite superlative bredeste)
* wide, broad

#### Antonyms

* smal

#### Derived terms

* bredbånd

### References

* “bred” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* bræd

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą, derived from the e-grade *bʰredʰóm, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-dʰ-, extended form of *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”). Cognates include German Brett, Yiddish ברעט (bret).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bred/

### Noun

bred n
* surface
* plank, board
* table, tablet

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Synonyms

* bord

#### Derived terms

* briden
* fōtbred
* handbred
* rihtebred
* tæppelbred
* weaxbred

#### Related terms

* bridd (possibly)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bred, bræd, brede (from the oblique cases)
** English: bred, brade, braid (dialectal)
** Scots: bred, braid, brad

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbreːd/, [ˈbrɛːd]

### Adjective

brēd
* broad, wide

#### Descendants

* North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: briad
    Goesharde: briid
    Halligen: briad
    Mooring: briidj
    Sylt: breer
    Wiedingharde: briidj
* Saterland Frisian: breed
* West Frisian: brie

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

### Adjective

brēd
* broad, wide

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: *brêd
** German Low German:
    Altmärkisch: breet
    Low Prussian, Westphalian (Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch): breed
    Westphalian:
       Dortmundisch: braẹ̆t
       Sauerländisch: bräit, brait (Elpe, Felbecke, Finnentrop, Attendorn, Elspe), brǟt (Niedersfeld)
       East Westphalian: breit (Lippe)
       Eastphalian: breit (Wedemark)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish brēþer, from Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eːd
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bred (comparative bredare, superlative bredast)
* wide, broad (having great width)
* broad (having great extent)
    bred kunskapbroad knowledge

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* bredbent
* bredvid
* gå den breda vägen

#### Related terms

* bredd (“width”)
* bredda (“to widen”)

#### See also

* smal
* vid

### Verb

bred
* imperative of breda

### References

* bred in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bred in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bred in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)