On Jul 18, 3:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:

"dread
c.1175, from O.E. ondrædan "counsel or advise against," also
"fear," from on- "against," second element of uncertain origin; prefix
wore off after 12c. Dreadlocks first recorded 1960, so called from the
dread they presumably aroused in beholders, but Rastafarian dread
(1974) also has a sense of "fear of the Lord," expressed in part as
alienation from contemporary society."