Ferd vs Fer - What's the difference?
ferd | fer |
An army, a host.
* 1330 , Robert Mannyng, Chronicle
A military expedition.
* c. 1050 , The Paris Psalter
A company, band, or group.
* c. 1400 ,
*1986 , Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, ?Douglas Gray, Middle English literature - Volume 1 - Page 89 :
(obsolete) Fear.
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, passage=“[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer' their feet '''fer''' th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' ' fer 'em. […]”}}
:1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
::‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
As a noun ferd
is an army, a host.As a preposition fer is
eye dialect of lang=en.ferd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ferde, feord, furd, from (etyl) fyrd, fierd, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- With þe wille I go als felawes in ferd .
- (With thee will I go as fellows in a ferd .)
- Þeah þu mid us ne fare on fyrd ...
- (Though thou with us not fare on a ferd ...)
- 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 ferd , all of fierce vessel.)
- For him a lord (British or Roman) is essentially a leader of a 'ferd' (OE fyrd); […]