# ferd
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɜː(ɹ)d/
* (Scotland) IPA: /fɛɹd/
* (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /feːd/
* (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /fɛːd/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

Either from Middle English ferde (“went, fared”), past participle of faren, or from Middle English ferde (“army”), from Old English fierd; see fyrd.

#### Alternative forms

* fard, faird

#### Noun

ferd (plural ferds)
* (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
** 1775, Baillie, Letters:It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.
** 1832, John Nevay, “The Cotter's Birth-Day”, in Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy, editors, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, page 381:A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn.

##### References

* “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* “ferd”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English feren (“to fear”). More at fear.

#### Noun

ferd (usually uncountable, plural ferds)
* (obsolete) Fear.

#### Adjective

ferd (comparative more ferd, superlative most ferd)
* (obsolete) Afraid.
** 1804, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Tristrem:Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;

### Etymology 3

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

#### Adjective

ferd (not comparable)
* (Scotland, obsolete) Fourth.
** 1565, Proces of Divorce twixt Erle Bothwell and his Wife:George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd.
** 1571, J Chepman, Decreet of Spulzie:Gevin vunder our signet, at Edinburgh, the xxiij day of Marche, and of our regnne the ferd yer.
** 1614, Register of Town Council of Edinburgh, vol x:The first & secund regents sall haif quarterlie ilkane threttein schilling four penneis. The thrid fyfteen sehillings and the ferd and principall twenty shillings.

### Anagrams

* Fred, derf

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Originally the past participle of feren (“to frighten”).

#### Alternative forms

* feerd, feerde, ferde, ferid

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛːrd/

#### Noun

ferd (uncountable)
* fear, terror

##### Derived terms

* ferdful
* ferdnesse

##### Descendants

* Yola: ferde

##### References

* “fērd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

#### Verb

ferd
* past participle of feren (“to frighten”).

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ferd
* Alternative form of ferde (“army”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse ferð.

### Noun

ferd f or m (definite singular ferda or ferden, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)
* journey, voyage, expedition
* være i ferd med (also written as iferd): to be on the point of, to be busy with

#### Derived terms

* folkeferd n
* gjenferd n
* pilegrimsferd
* triumfferd

### References

* “ferd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “ferd” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse ferð.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fæːr/, /fæːɽ/

### Noun

ferd f (definite singular ferda, indefinite plural ferder, definite plural ferdene)
* journey, travel
    Korleis var ferda di til Sambandsstatane?How was your journey to the United States?
* group of people
* vere i ferd med: to be on the point of, to be busy with

#### Derived terms

* ferdsel
* gjenferd n
* pilegrimsferd
* triumfferd

### Verb

ferd
* imperative of ferda

### References

* “ferd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.