English
gride
Gride comes from English gird ‘to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe’, and goes back to Middle English girden.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500girden
- English1500–presentgird‘to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590gridemetathetic variation of gird
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500girden
- English1500–presentgird‘to strike, smite, upbraid, scold, jibe’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590gridemetathetic variation of gird
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto I: “Where feeling one cloſe couched by her ſide /…”
Linked words
through Middle English girden
Today it means
verb To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English girden / gride