eid

From Eid.

eid (plural eids)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Eid.

From Old Norse eið (“an isthmus, neck of land”), from Proto-Germanic *aidiją (“isthmus, strait”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”). Cognate with Icelandic eið, eiði, Faroese eið, eiði (“isthmus”), Norwegian eid (“isthmus”), Swedish ed. Compare Latin eō (“go, proceed”, verb).

• ed, aith

eid (plural eids)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank cast up by the sea across the head of an open bight or inlet and having a lagoon inside it.

• DEI, EDI, IED, Ide, DIE, IDE, ide, -ied, die, -ide

eid

1. second-person singular past indicative of īedõ

From Old Norse eið, from Proto-Germanic *aidą, probably related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“go”) and Latin eo. Cognate with Swedish ed, Icelandic eið, and Faroese eið.

• IPA^(key): /æɪd/

eid n (definite singular eidet, indefinite plural eid, definite plural eida or eidene)

1. an isthmus

• eiet
• ått

eid

1. past participle of eie

eid m (definite singular eiden, indefinite plural eider, definite plural eidene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by ed

• “eid”, in: Bjorvand & Lindeman, Våre arveord, rev. ed. Oslo, 2007.
• “eid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse eiðr, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *oyt-.

• e, ed (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ɛɪː(d)/

eid m (definite singular eiden, indefinite plural eidar, definite plural eidane)

1. an oath
2. an expletive

From Old Norse eið, from Proto-Germanic *aidiją, probably related to Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“go”) and Latin eo. Cognate with Swedish ed, Icelandic eið, and Faroese eið.

• e (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ɛɪː(d)/

eid n (definite singular eidet, indefinite plural eid, definite plural eida)

1. an isthmus

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd), via Persian عید ('eyd).

eid m

1. alternative form of id (“Eid”)

• “eid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• aid — Lombardic

From Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, whence also Old Saxon ēth, Old English āþ, Old Norse eiðr, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (aiþs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oyt-.

• IPA^(key): /eit/

eid m

1. oath

• ahteid

• Middle High German: eit
  • German: Eid
  • Luxembourgish: Eed
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Frankfurterisch: IPA [ait]

• ⇒ Lombardic: *aido (“oath-helper”) (attested as aidos pl (“oath-helpers”))

eid m (plural eids)

1. alternative form of ide

• IPA^(key): /ei̯d/

eid

1. (literary) impersonal imperfect/conditional of mynd

• elid