heire
English
Noun
heire (plural heires)
- Obsolete form of heir.
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
- How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
heire (plural heires or heiren)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 2
Noun
heire (plural heires)
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly derived from Danish hejre which, like hegre, is derived from Old Norse hegri.
Noun
heire m (definite singular heiren, indefinite plural heirer, definite plural heirene)
- Alternative spelling of hegre
References
- “heire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.