Fere vs Ferd - What's the difference?
fere | ferd |
A companion, comrade or friend.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
(label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
*1830 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
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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In obsolete terms the difference between fere and ferd
is that fere is fierce while ferd is fear.As an adjective fere
is fierce.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* free * reef ----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); […]
