berd

Dutch

From Middle Dutch bert (“plank, tabletop”), from Old Dutch *bret, from Proto-Germanic *bredą. Cognate with German Brett (“board, plank”).

berd n (plural berden, diminutive berdje n) (widely archaic outside idioms; perhaps still locally in Belgium)

Now chiefly restricted to the fixed expression te berde brengen (“to bring to the table, to address”).

berd (plural berdes)

^ “bērd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ Aitken, A[dam] J., Macafee, Caroline, editors (2002), “Part One: Vowel Phonology of Scots to 1375”, in The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 3.1, page 8.
^ Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)‎^[1], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 59, page 89.

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