hired

See also: híred

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪɚd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

Verb

hired

1. simple past and past participle of hire

Anagrams

• hider, rehid, rheid

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hired

1. Alternative form of hird (“household”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• hirid, hyrede, hyrid, hyryd

Verb

hired

1. inflection of hiren (“to hire”):
   1. first/third-person singular past indicative
   2. past participle

Old English

Alternative forms

• hēored, hīered, hīorad, hīræd, hīrd, hȳred

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hīwarād (“family, marriage”). Cognate with Old High German hīrāt (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English hīwen (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiː.red/, [ˈhiː.red]

Noun

hīred m

1. 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."

2. retinue
3. company, brotherhood

Declension

Declension of hired (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	hīred	hīredas
accusative	hīred	hīredas
genitive	hīredes	hīreda
dative	hīrede	hīredum

Descendants

• Middle English: hird, herd, herde, hert, hired, hyrd, hyrt; hirð, hireden, hirt
• → Old Norse: hirð
  • Icelandic: hirð
  • Faroese: hirð
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hird, hyrd
    • → English: hird
  • Old Swedish: hirþ
    • Swedish: hird
  • Danish: hird
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hird
      • → English: hird