arread
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; …"
- "His hall resounds!―amaz'd the stranger wight Arreads it all as done to him in fell despight."
- "Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite; No sky is heavy, if the heart be light: Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd, So Donald right arreads, must be endur'd."
- "My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads, Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; …"
- "Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!"
- "Now, good Christe arread, and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?"
Etymology
From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: areden, ārǣdan, *uʀrādan, *uzrēdaną