reed

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
3. (countable) Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable) Short for reed instrument.
5. (countable) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
6. (countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
7. (uncountable) Reeding.
8. (countable, uncountable) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
9. (countable, uncountable) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
10. (countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable) A missile weapon.
11. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A measuring rod.
12. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A measuring rod.

Verb

1. (transitive) To thatch.
2. To mill or mint with reeding.

Verb

simple past and past participle of ree

ree

• Noun
• Adj
• Verb
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Concepts

roseau

canne

anche

peigne

jonc

marais

instrument à anche

chalumeau

carex

laîche

tige de maïs juteuse

ried

sagne

sorte de jonc

Synonymes

cane

rush

comb

pipe

vibrating reed

sedge

rushes

tule

reed instrument

bulrush

flute

🪈

stick

beating-reed instrument

grass

reeds

leaf spring

leg

🦵

oboe

papyrus

ratan

shaft

spear

spring

staff

stalk

straw

tongue

👅

reed pipe

rushy

common reed

malacca

stalk of grass

pan-pipe

reed-pipe

Arundinaria

Phragmites communis

marsh grass

reedfish

ropefish

phragmites communis

reedy grass

steel hoop

otter weed

abomasum

svirel

anchor

⚓

arrow

baton

batten

beater

Traductions

Schilf

caña

riet

giunco

junco

canna

Schilfrohr

canya

καλάμι

cana

Ried

Rohr

calamus

canna

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹiːd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: red

Hérité de ancien anglais: hrēod

Appartenant à saterlandais: Rait

Appartenant à frison occidental: reid

Appartenant à néerlandais: riet

Appartenant à allemand: Ried

Appartenant à gotique: *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳

Hérité de moyen anglais: reden

Hérité de moyen anglais: rede

Hérité de ancien anglais: rēada

In summary

From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin.
Akin to Saterland Frisian Rait (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳 (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm. They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius). The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.