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Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
hid
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English
Pronunciation
Verb
hid
- simple past of hide
- (archaic) past participle of hide
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:17:
- Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 6:
- Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.
- 1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:
- To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish hidh, from Old Norse hit.
Adverb
hid
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hid
- alternative form of hide (“concealment”)
Etymology 2
Pronoun
hid
- alternative form of hit (“it”)
Etymology 3
Noun
hid
- alternative form of hyde (“skin”)
Etymology 4
Noun
hid
- alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)
Etymology 5
Verb
hid
- alternative form of hiden (“to hide”)
Verb
hid
- alternative form of hideth: third-person singular present of hiden
- alternative form of hidde: simple past/past participle of hiden
Etymology 6
Verb
hid
- alternative form of hyed: simple past/past participle of hyen
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Old English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
hīd f
- a portion of land; a hide
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Þonne is on ēasteweardre Cent myċel ēaland Tenet, þæt is syx hund hīda miċel æfter Angelcynnes ǣhte. Þæt ēalond tōsċēadeð Wantsumo strēam frām þām tōġeþeoddan lande. Sē is þreora furlunga brād: ⁊ on twām stōwum is oferfernes, ⁊ ǣġhwæþer ende līð on sǣ.
- Now to the east of Cent there is the great island of Thanet, which contains six hundred hides by the English manner of reckoning. The island separates the Wantsum Channel from the adjacent land. It is three furlongs wide; and it can be crossed in two places, and at each end flows into the sea.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “híd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Uzbek
Etymology
Inherited from Chagatai اید (id), from Khorezmian Turkic ییذ (yıḏ), from Karakhanid یٖیذْ (yīḏ /yï̄ḏ/), from Proto-Turkic *yï̄d. Cognate with Azerbaijani iy, Uyghur ھىد (hid).
Pronunciation
Noun
hid (plural hidlar)
Declension
Derived terms
- hidlamoq
- hidli
- hidsiz
Further reading
- “hid“ in izoh.uz
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