redd

Meanings

Verb

• To free from entanglement.
• To free from embarrassment.
• To fix boundaries.
• To comb hair.
• To separate combatants.
• To settle, usually a quarrel.
• To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
• Past of rede
• Past of read

Noun

• A spawning nest made by a fish.

Origin

• Fusion of Middle English redden ("to save, rescue, deliver, rid, free, clear"), from Old English hreddan ("to save, deliver, recover, rescue"), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną and Middle English reden ("to clean up, clear"), from Old English ġerǣdan ("to put in order, arrange, prepare"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną ("to arrange"). More at rid, ready.
• From Middle English, from Old Norse ryðja, Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden. In modern use probably actually a .
• Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.
• From the archaic verb rede or read