arread

Meaning

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To declare; tell; interpret; explain.
2. (archaic, transitive) To counsel; advise; direct; teach.
3. (archaic, transitive) To guess; conjecture.
4. (archaic, transitive) To read.

Noun

Advice; discourse; narration.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: areden

Inherited from Old English: ārǣdan

Cognate with German: erraten

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽

In summary

From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).