hired
See also: híred
English edit
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hired
- simple past and past participle of hire
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Etymology 1 edit
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hired
- Alternative form of hird (“household”)
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hired
- inflection of hiren (“to hire”):
Old English edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hīwarād (“family, marriage”). Cognate with Old High German hīrāt (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English hīwen (“household”).
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Noun edit
hīred m
- family, household
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
- Eft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, "Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hīrede heora synna."
- Again the Almighty spake to the prophet Isaiah, "Cry and cease thou not, raise thy voice as a trumpet, and declare to my people their crimes, and to the family of Jacob their sins."
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
- retinue
- company, brotherhood
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Declension of hired (strong a-stem)