Part of speech: verb
Verb type: weak verb (2)
to talk; to say (also riordian)
Etymology
[Mod E (Scott dial) REIRD v “to speak, discourse; to make a noise, roar” ← reord n “talking, utterance; voice”]
Paradigm
4.2.2. - 2nd class weak verbs
The second class of the weak verbs is marked by the presence of the Prot-Germ suffix *-ō-, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon in the form of short vowel -o- of the past tense suffix: macode (made); lufode (loved), etc.
II class | infinitive | past tense singular |
to look (at); to see | lócian, lóciȝan | lócode |
to love | lufian | lufode |
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