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hede
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English
Etymology
From Middle English hede, from Old English *hǣdu, feminine form of Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality; degree, rank, order, office; condition, state, nature, form, manner; sex; race, family, tribe; choir”), from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”). Cognate with Middle High German heit (“person, order, rank”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner, way”). More at hade.
Noun
hede (plural hedes)
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Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse heiðr (“heath, moor”).
Noun
hede c (singular definite heden, plural indefinite heder)
Inflection
Etymology 2
Noun
hede c (singular definite heden, not used in plural form)
Inflection
Etymology 3
From Old Norse heita. Cognate with Old High German heizen.
Verb
hede (imperative hed, infinitive at hede, present tense heder, past tense hedede, perfect tense hedet)
Conjugation
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Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hēde, eastern variant of herde, heerde, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀdā.
Pronunciation
Noun
hede f (plural hedens, no diminutive)
Finnish
Etymology
he(i)ti- + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1859.
Pronunciation
Noun
hede
Declension
Derived terms
nouns
See also
Further reading
- “hede”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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Latin
Noun
hede
Middle English
Etymology 1
From heden.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
hede (plural hedes)
Descendants
References
- “hẹ̄d, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
hede
- alternative form of hod
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
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Etymology 3
Noun
hede
- alternative form of heed
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hede
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