From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (compare rudu), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (compare red; cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad).
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