hed
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Etymology 1 edit
Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.
Noun edit
hed (plural heds)
- (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
- Archaic spelling of head.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Altered spelling of had.
Verb edit
hed
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
Etymology 3 edit
See heed.
Verb edit
hed
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Verb edit
hed
- imperative of hedde
- past of hedde
Manx edit
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hed
Middle English edit
Noun edit
hed
- Alternative form of heed
Old Irish edit
Pronoun edit
hed
- Alternative spelling of ed
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
- Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.
- It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9a22
- Is hed no·molfar.
- It is [this] that I shall praise.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21a8
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- This is what I pray.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.
Noun edit
hed c
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Declension edit
Declension of hed | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hed | heden | hedar | hedarna |
Genitive | heds | hedens | hedars | hedarnas |