hed

See also: -hed and he'd

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

hed (plural heds)

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

Related terms

• unhed

Etymology 2

Altered spelling of had.

Verb

hed

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.

Anagrams

• edh

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Danish

Verb

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past tense of hedde

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Manx

Verb

hed

1. future independent analytic form of immee

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Middle English

Noun

hed

1. Alternative form of heed

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Old Irish

Pronoun

hed

1. 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. 21a8

     Is hed inso no·guidimm.

     This is what I pray.

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hed c

1. A moor; an extensive waste land.

Declension

Declension of hed
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hed	heden	hedar	hedarna
Genitive	heds	hedens	hedars	hedarnas