heire
English edit
Noun edit
heire (plural heires)
- Obsolete form of heir.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 12:7:
- But those husbandmen said amongst themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
- How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
heire (plural heires or heiren)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
heire (plural heires)
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Danish hejre, which (like the native Norwegian form hegre) is derived from Old Norse hegri.
Noun edit
heire m (definite singular heiren, indefinite plural heirer, definite plural heirene)
- Alternative spelling of hegre