rend

Meaningtearing

Common meaning: to tear apart

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KART‘cut’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 60, p. 732 · scan
  2. Old Englishhrendan‘rendan, not common’sourceB&T
  3. Middle Englishrendensource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsrendan, not common → to tear apartrend‘to tear apart’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English hrendan ‘tearing’.

Roots

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