# ferde
## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the fered variant of fürdik (“to bathe”, the word family originally expressing “to turn, revolve, spin”) +‎ -e (obsolete present-participle suffix). Its current meaning goes back to the sense “to turn round, diverge, deviate from straight”, compare fordul.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɛrdɛ]
* Hyphenation: fer‧de
* Rhymes: -dɛ

### Adjective

ferde (comparative ferdébb, superlative legferdébb)
* slanting, inclined, oblique
* leaning (to one side), tilted, crooked
* sideways (glance)
* perverted (view), awkward (behavior)

#### Derived terms

* ferdeség
* ferdén
* ferdít
* ferdül
* ferdeszög
* ferdetest
* ferde szemmel néz

#### Related terms

* ferde
* fertő
* fetreng
* fordít, fordul
* forgatag, förgeteg/fergeteg
* forgács
* forog, forgat
* forr, fortyan
* förmed
* förtelem / fertelem
* fürdik, fürdet/füröszt
* fürge

### References

* ↑ ferde in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ ferde in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* ferde in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English fierd, fyrd, feord, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”); compare faren. Forms with a final vowel are from the Old English oblique forms.
Cognate with Old Frisian ferd, fart (“an expedition, journey”), Old High German fart (“journey”) (German Fahrt), Danish færd (“voyage, travel”).

#### Alternative forms

* ferd, fierd, fierde, furde, verd
* færde, feord, værde (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeːrd(ə)/, /ˈfɛːrd(ə)/, /ˈfiːrd(ə)/

#### Noun

ferde (plural ferdes or ferden)
* An army or host.
** 1330, Robert Mannyng, Chronicle:With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd.With you I will go as fellows in an army.
* A troop; a portion of an army.
** c. 1400, The Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy:And foure scoure fyne shippes to the flete broght... with fyfty, in a furthe, all of fuerse vesell. (And four score fine ships to the fleet brought... with fifty in a troop, all of fierce vessel.)(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (by extension) A band or company.
* (rare, Early Middle English) A military expedition.

##### Descendants

* >? English: ferd

##### References

* “fẹ̄̆rd(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ferde
* Alternative form of ferd (“fear”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

ferde (present tense ferdar, past tense ferda, past participle ferda, passive infinitive ferdast, present participle ferdande, imperative ferde/ferd)
* Alternative form of ferda

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeːr.de/, [ˈfeːrˠ.de]

### Verb

fērde
* inflection of fēran:
** first/third-person singular preterite indicative
** singular preterite subjunctive

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English ferd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛrd/

### Noun

ferde
* fear
    Synonym: vear
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:Th' hap, an ee ferde, an ee crie, was Tommeen.The chance, and the fear, and the cry, was Tommeen.

#### Related terms

* Fearde

### 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 88