hed
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.
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Etymology 2
Altered spelling of had.
Verb
hed
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
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Danish
Verb
hed
Manx
Verb
hed
Middle English
Noun
hed
- Alternative form of heed
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. 21a8
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- This is what I pray.
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- 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 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
Declension of hed | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hed | heden | hedar | hedarna |
Genitive | heds | hedens | hedars | hedarnas |
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