Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Ready money; cash.
To prepare; to make ready for action.
Prepared for immediate action or use. · first only used predicatively, freely used from the end of the 17th century · Inclined; apt to happen. · Liable at any moment.
From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).
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- Root classification mention*h₂er-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionredyenm
- Inherited-form mentionrǣdeang
- Inherited-form mention*garaidijazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₂reh₁dʰ-ine-pro
- Derivation mention*reydʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionreadiesco
- Cognate mentionreefy
- Cognate mentiongereednl
- Cognate mentionbereitde
- Cognate mentionrededa
- Cognate mentionredosv
- Cognate mentionreiugno
- Cognate mentiongreiðuris
- Cognate mention𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃got
This page abbreviates 2 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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