-red

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. A suffix forming nouns of condition or state.

Word forms

-red

Etymology

From Middle English -rede, -red, -redde, -reden, from Old English -rǣden (which see). Cognate with German -rat (as in Heirat (“wedding”)).

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