-rent

See also: rent and Rent

Scots

Alternative forms
  • -rend, -rand, -reint, -rant, -rene, -redyn, -ring

Etymology

Metathetic alteration of Northern Middle English -redene, -redyn, -raden, from Old English -rǣden (“-red”). Doublet of -red.

Suffix

-rent

  1. (Middle Scots, no longer productive) A suffix forming nouns of condition or state.
    hatrent, kinrent, manrent

Derived terms
Scots terms suffixed with -rent
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