hed
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English
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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)
- (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
- Archaic spelling of head.
Related terms
- K-hed
- unhed
Etymology 2
Altered spelling of had.
Verb
hed
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
Etymology 3
See heed.
Verb
hed
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish het, from Old Norse heitr.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hed (neuter hedt, plural and definite singular attributive hede)
- hot, scorching, boiling (regarding tempature)
- erotic, arousing, titillating
- (uncommon) in demand (something hot/in a the moment)
- Synonym: varm
Inflection
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.
References
- “hed” in Den Danske Ordbog
Verb
hed
- imperative of hedde
- past of hedde
Manx
Verb
hed
Middle English
Noun
hed
- Alternative form of heed
North Frisian
Verb
hed
- inflection of haa:
Old Irish
Pronoun
hed
- 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. 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.
- 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
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.
Noun
hed c
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hed | heds |
| definite | heden | hedens | |
| plural | indefinite | hedar | hedars |
| definite | hedarna | hedarnas |
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