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English word read comes from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ-, Proto-Indo-European *rēy-, and later Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (To decide, advise.)
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*Hreh₁dʰ- (Proto-Indo-European)
*rēy- (Proto-Indo-European)
thing; possession, to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable, to scream, shout, roar, bellow, bark, growl
*rēdaną (Proto-Germanic)
To decide, advise.
rædan (Old English)
To advise. To interpret words and letters; to read. To interpret, explain. To prepare.
rǣdan (Old English)
ræden (Middle English)
read (English)
(at first especially in the black, _, LGBT, _, community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).. (informal, usually, ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in [...]