# redden
## English
### Etymology

From red +‎ -en.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɛdn̩/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛdən
* Hyphenation: red‧den

### Verb

redden (third-person singular simple present reddens, present participle reddening, simple past and past participle reddened)
* (intransitive) To become red or redder.
** 1769, Plautus, Bonnell Thornton (translation), "The Captives", The Comedies of Plautus, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, page 341
    But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
** 1794, William Hamilton, "Mithridates", Poems on Several Occasions, W. Gordon, page 258
    Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
** 1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32,
    When the sun-god saw that, and the reddening sky
    And the waning moon seeming to thaw
    He called the Hours to yoke the horses.
* (transitive) To make red or redder.
** 1884, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Becket‎, act I, scene 4:God redden your pale blood!
** 1942, Wallace Stevens, “Country Words”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Knopf, published 1971, page 207:[…] If the cloud that hangs Upon the heart and round the mind Cleared from the north and in that height The sun appeared and reddened great Belshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rude With rubies then, attend me now.
** 1969, Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides, Norton, published 1974, page 19:Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele, Crown your hair with ivy Turn your fingers green with bryony Redden your walls with berries.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) redden | (to) redden |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | redden | reddened |
| 2nd-person singular | redden | reddened |
| 3rd-person singular | reddens | reddened |
| plural | redden | reddened |
| subjunctive | redden | reddened |
| imperative | redden | — |
| participles | reddening | reddened |

#### Derived terms

* reddener

#### Related terms

* red

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* derned, red Ned, rended

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch redden, from Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną. Equivalent to rad (“quick”) +‎ -en (“deadjectival”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛ.də(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: red‧den
* Rhymes: -ɛdən

### Verb

redden
* (transitive) to save, rescue
    Hij wist zich ternauwernood uit het brandende wrak te redden. ― He barely managed to save himself from the burning wreck.
* (reflexive) to manage, cope, be fine
    Maak je geen zorgen, ik red me wel. ― Don’t worry, I’ll manage.
    Redden jullie je wel of heb je hulp nodig? ― Can you (guys) manage or do you need help? (literally, “Can you save yourself well or do you need help?”)

#### Derived terms

* het redden
* reddeloos
* redder
* redding
* redmiddel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: red
* Negerhollands: red

### Anagrams

* dender, derden, redend

## Maltese

* Root
* r-d-n
* 5 terms

### Alternative forms

* radden

### Etymology

From Arabic رَدَّنَ (raddana).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛd.dɛn/
* Rhymes: -ɛddɛn

### Verb

redden (imperfect jredden, past participle mredden)
* to spin cotton on a spindle

#### Conjugation
## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *redden, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

### Verb

redden
* to save, to rescue

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: redden
* Limburgish: rèdde

### Further reading

* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “redden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* redde
* reddenn (Ormulum)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraddjan, from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛdən/

### Verb

redden
* To save or rescue; to remove from penury or captivity.
    Synonyms: aredden, saven
** Floris and Blauncheflur
    Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde.With that he saved the children from death.
* To release from injury or trouble.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) redden, redde | (to) redden, redde |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | redde | redde |
| 2nd-person singular | reddest | reddest |
| 3rd-person singular | reddeth | redde |
| subjunctive singular | redde | redde |
| imperative singular | redde | — |
| plural$^1$ | redden, redde | redden, redde |
| imperative plural | reddeth, redde | — |
| participles | reddynge, reddende | red, yred |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Related terms

* aredden
* ridden

#### Descendants

* English: redd, red; rid
* Scots: redd, red
* Yola: red

#### References

* “redden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Swedish
### Noun

redden
* definite singular of redd