Etymology of turd

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Unnumbered source etymology

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verb

To defecate.

noun

A piece of solid feces. · A worthless person or thing.

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From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

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Inherited-form mentiontoordenm
Inherited-form mentiontordang · piece of dung, excrement, filth
Inherited-form mention*tordgmw-pro
Inherited-form mention*turdągem-pro · manure, mud
Derivation mention*der-ine-pro · to split, flay
Cognate mentiontyrdelang
Cognate mentionzortgoh
Cognate mentiontorð-non
Cognate mentiontorddum

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