erende

• erand, erande, eraunde, erinde
• errnde (Ormulum); ærnde, earende (Laȝamon's Brut)
• ardene, erdne, erdon, herdne (East Anglia); arnde (East Saxon); arende, errand, herand, herynd (Northern, North Midland)
• erant, erante (Devon); ernd, ernde, hernde (especially West Midland)

From Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī, from Proto-Germanic *airundiją.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrənd(ə)/, /ˈɛrand(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrdən(ə)/, /ˈardən(ə)/, /-dnə/ (East Anglia)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ̝ːrənd/, /ˈɛ̝ːrand/ (Northern)
• IPA^(key): /ˈarnd(ə)/ (East Saxon), /ˈɛrnd(ə)/ (West Midland)

erende (plural erendes)

1. A message; a written or spoken communication
2. A petition or entreaty; a significant request.
3. A task or mission (especially delivering a message)
4. A business or activity; something engaged in.

• English: errand
• Middle Scots: erand, eirand, earand
  • Scots: errand
• Yola: erroane, errone

• “ē̆rend(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎^[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 8, page 473.