DAY-RED NOUN the red of the break of day; the rosy dawn; daybreak ...c1000 obs. ETYMOLOGY from OED: Apparently cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch dagheraet , dageraet (Dutch dageraad ), Middle Low German dāgerāt , dāgerēt , dāgerōt , Old High German tagarōd , tagarōt , tagarōta , tagarōti (Middle High German tagerāt , (also) tagerōt ) from the Germanic base of day (n.) + a second element of uncertain and disputed origin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1000 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Þæt leoht ðe we hatað dægered cymð of ðære sunnan þonne heo upweard bið..." From: Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni
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