reard

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*res-“to shout, speak”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*rizdō
3. Old English · inherited fromreord“voice, speech, language”
4. Middle English · inherited fromrerde
5. English todayreard

From Middle English rerde, rerd, from Old English reord (“voice, speech, language”), from Proto-Germanic *rizdō, *razdō (“voice, language, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *res- (“to shout, speak”). Cognate with Old High German rarta (“sound, voice, harmony”), Old Norse rǫdd (“voice, speech, song”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰 (razda, “tongue, speech, language, dialect”).

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