| From: | Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2008, 15:39 |
2008/12/11 Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...>> Here's another one.... what's the derivation of "red up" meaning to tidy? > Mum always said that we had to "red up" our bedrooms.AIUI, red comes from the same word as ready (OE (ge)ræde), but through a different dialect. In Common Germanic, the stem was *(ga)raiþa- "ridable", from *raiþan "ride". -- Lars