red

Middle English {it}red, rede, reed,{/it} going back to Old English {it}rēad,{/it} going back to Germanic {it}*rauđa-{/it} (whence also Old Frisian {it}rād, rōd{/it} "red, yellow," Old Saxon {it}rōd{/it} "red," Middle Dutch {it}root, rood,{/it} Old High German {it}rōt,{/it} Old Norse {it}rauðr,{/it} Gothic {it}rauþs{/it}), going back to Indo-European {it}*h{inf}1{/inf}rou̯dh-o-,{/it} whence also Old Irish {it}rúad{/it} "reddish brown, dark red," Welsh {it}rhudd{/it} "red, tawny," Latin {it}rūfus{/it} (from a dialect or another Italic language, with {it}-f-{/it} for expected {it}-b-{/it}), Lithuanian {it}raũdas{/it} "red-brown, reddish," Russian dialect {it}rúdyj{/it} "blood-red," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian {it}rûd{/it} "reddish brown"; from a suffixed zero-grade form {it}*h{inf}1{/inf}rudh-ro-,{/it} Old Norse {it}roðra{/it} "blood," Latin {it}ruber{/it} "red," Tocharian B {it}ratre,{/it} Greek {it}erythrós,{/it} Sanskrit {it}rudhiráḥ{/it} "red, bloody"

Middle English red, rede, reed, going back to Old English rēad, going back to Germanic *rauđa- (whence also Old Frisian rād, rōd "red, yellow," Old Saxon rōd "red," Middle Dutch root, rood, Old High German rōt, Old Norse rauðr, Gothic rauþs), going back to Indo-European {it}*h{inf}1{/inf}rou̯dh-o-,{/it} whence also Old Irish rúad "reddish brown, dark red," Welsh rhudd "red, tawny," Latin rūfus (from a dialect or another Italic language, with -f- for expected -b-), Lithuanian raũdas "red-brown, reddish," Russian dialect rúdyj "blood-red," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rûd "reddish brown"; from a suffixed zero-grade form {it}*h{inf}1{/inf}rudh-ro-,{/it} Old Norse roðra "blood," Latin ruber "red," Tocharian B ratre, Greek erythrós, Sanskrit rudhiráḥ "red, bloody"