hed
Translingual
Symbol
hedCategory:Translingual lemmas#HEDCategory:Translingual symbols#HEDCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#HEDCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
See also
English
Pronunciation
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)Category:English lemmas#HEDCategory:English nouns#HEDCategory:English countable nouns#HEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- (journalismCategory:en:Mass media#HED, slangCategory:English slang#HED) The headline of a news story.
- Archaic spelling of headCategory:English archaic forms#HED.
Related terms
Etymology 2
Altered spelling of had.
Verb
hedCategory:English non-lemma forms#HEDCategory:English verb forms#HEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- (nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#HED) Pronunciation spelling of hadCategory:English pronunciation spellings#HED, representing dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#HED English.
- 1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2:
- He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out. […]”Category:English terms with quotations#HED
- 1894 February, Ella Beecher Gittings, “A Case of Heredity”, in Overland Monthly, volume XXIII, number 134, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Publishing Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 1:
- It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.Category:English terms with quotations#HED
Etymology 3
See heed.
Verb
hedCategory:English non-lemma forms#HEDCategory:English verb forms#HEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#HED, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#HED) simple past and past participle of heed
- They finally hed my warnings!Category:English terms with usage examples#HED
Anagrams
Antigua and Barbuda Creole English
Noun
hedCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English lemmas#HEDCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English nouns#HEDCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
Danish
Etymology
From Old DanishCategory:Danish terms inherited from Old Danish#HEDCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Danish#HED het, from Old NorseCategory:Danish terms inherited from Old Norse#HEDCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#HED heitr.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hed (neuter hedt, plural and definite singular attributive hede)Category:Danish lemmas#HEDCategory:Danish adjectives#HEDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- hot, scorching, boiling (regarding tempature)
- erotic, arousing, titillating
- (uncommonCategory:Danish terms with uncommon senses#HED) in demand (something hot/in a the moment)
- Synonym: varm
Inflection
| positive | comparative | superlative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite common singular | hed | hedere | hedest2 |
| indefinite neuter singular | hedt | hedere | hedest2 |
| plural | hede | hedere | hedest2 |
| definite attributive1 | hede | hedere | hedeste |
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.
Verb
hedCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#HEDCategory:Danish verb forms#HEDCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- imperative of hedde
- past of hedde
References
- “hed” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “hed” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Manx
Verb
hedCategory:Manx lemmas#HEDCategory:Manx verbs#HEDCategory:Manx entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
Middle English
Noun
hedCategory:Middle English alternative forms#HEDCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- alternative form of heed
North Frisian
Verb
hedCategory:North Frisian non-lemma forms#HEDCategory:North Frisian verb forms#HEDCategory:North Frisian entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- inflection of haa:
Old Irish
Pronoun
hedCategory:Old Irish alternative forms#EDCategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#EDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- alternative spelling of ed
Quotations
- 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
- 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
Swedish
Etymology
From Old SwedishCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish#HEDCategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish#HED heþ, from Old NorseCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#HEDCategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#HED heiðr, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HEDCategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HED *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#HEDCategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HED *kayt-, *ḱayt-.
Noun
hed cCategory:Swedish lemmas#HEDCategory:Swedish nouns#HEDCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hed | heds |
| definite | heden | hedens | |
| plural | indefinite | hedar | hedars |
| definite | hedarna | hedarnas |
Further reading
- “hed”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “hed”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “hed”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Apheretic form of ehed, a back-formation from (e)hedeg (“to fly, to sprout”)Category:Welsh back-formations#HED.
Noun
hed f (plural hedion, not mutable)Category:Welsh lemmas#HEDCategory:Welsh nouns#HEDCategory:Welsh countable nouns#HEDCategory:Welsh non-mutable terms#HEDCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Welsh feminine nouns#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
Derived terms
- mân hedion (“mites”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hed f (not mutable)Category:Welsh lemmas#HEDCategory:Welsh nouns#HEDCategory:Welsh countable nouns#HEDCategory:Welsh non-mutable terms#HEDCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Welsh feminine nouns#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- alternative form of het (“hat”)
Etymology 3
Adverb
hedCategory:Welsh lemmas#HEDCategory:Welsh adverbs#HEDCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#HEDCategory:Pages with entries#HEDCategory:Pages with 10 entries#HED
- alternative form of hefyd (“also, too”)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “hed”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies