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hed

See also: -hed and he'd

Translingual

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hed

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Herdé.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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hed (plural heds)

  1. (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
  2. Archaic spelling of head.
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Etymology 2

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Altered spelling of had.

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hed

  1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
    • 1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2:
      He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out. […]”
    • 1894 February, Ella Beecher Gittings, “A Case of Heredity”, in Overland Monthly, volume XXIII, number 134, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Publishing Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 1:
      It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.

Etymology 3

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See heed.

Verb

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hed

  1. (informal, obsolete) simple past and past participle of heed
    They finally hed my warnings!

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish het, from Old Norse heitr.

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Adjective

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hed (neuter hedt, plural and definite singular attributive hede)

  1. hot, scorching, boiling (regarding tempature)
  2. erotic, arousing, titillating
  3. (uncommon) in demand (something hot/in a the moment)
    Synonym: varm

Inflection

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Inflection of hed
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular hed hedere hedest2
indefinite neuter singular hedt hedere hedest2
plural hede hedere hedest2
definite attributive1 hede hedere hedeste

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Verb

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hed

  1. imperative of hedde
  2. past of hedde

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Manx

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Verb

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hed

  1. future independent analytic form of immee

Middle English

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Noun

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hed

  1. alternative form of heed

North Frisian

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Verb

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hed

  1. inflection of haa:
    1. first/third-person singular preterite
    2. plural preterite
    3. past participle

Old Irish

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Pronoun

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hed

  1. alternative spelling of ed

Quotations

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  • 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.

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.

Noun

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hed c

  1. A moor; an extensive waste land.

Declension

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Declension of hed
nominative genitive
singular indefinite hed heds
definite heden hedens
plural indefinite hedar hedars
definite hedarna hedarnas

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