hired
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See also: híred
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
hired
- simple past and past participle of hire
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
hired
- Alternative form of hird (“household”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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
Declension[edit]
Declension of hired (strong a-stem)
Descendants[edit]
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