hed

See also: -hed and he'd

Translingual

Symbol

hed

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Herdé.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Herdé terms

English

Pronunciation

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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)

1. (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
2. Archaic spelling of head.

Related terms

• K-hed
• unhed

Etymology 2

Altered spelling of had.

Verb

hed

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal 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. […]”

   • 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.

Etymology 3

See heed.

Verb

hed

1. (informal, obsolete) simple past and past participle of heed

   They finally hed my warnings!

Anagrams

• edh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish het, from Old Norse heitr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈheðˀ]

Adjective

hed (neuter hedt, plural and definite singular attributive hede)

1. hot, scorching, boiling (regarding tempature)
2. erotic, arousing, titillating
3. (uncommon) in demand (something hot/in a the moment)

   Synonym: varm

Inflection

Inflection of hed

	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

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past of hedde

References

• “hed” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hed” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Manx

Verb

hed

1. future independent analytic form of immee

Middle English

Noun

hed

1. Alternative form of heed

North Frisian

Verb

hed

1. inflection of haa:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. plural preterite
   3. past participle

Old Irish

Pronoun

hed

1. 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. 6^c9

     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. 9^a22

     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. 21^a8

     Is hed inso no·guidimm.

     This is what I pray.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.

Noun

hed c

1. A moor; an extensive waste land.

Declension

Declension of hed

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hed	heds
	definite	heden	hedens
plural	indefinite	hedar	hedars
	definite	hedarna	hedarnas

Further reading

• hed in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hed in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hed in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)