heard
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English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɜːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɚd/
Audio (US): (file) - (Ireland, Appalachia) IPA(key): /hiːɹd/
- (Early Modern) IPA(key): /hɛrd/, /hærd/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
- Homophone: herd
Verb
heard
- simple past and past participle of hear
Adjective
heard (not comparable)
- That has been heard or listened to; that has been aurally detected.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 10:
- he following are some examples of the types of heard information that can be used to distinguish some of the languages in Singapore, namely Malay and Singapore English.
Interjection
heard
- I understand; gotcha
References
- ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 65, pages 559-560:
- ME ă is most commonly recorded in heard, which has it in Cheke (beside ĕ), Laneham, Coote, Robinson (beside ĕ), Hayward, Daines, Wharton, Poole, Price, Cocker, and the ‘homophone lists’ from that of Hodges onwards. Butler knows the ă pronunciation, but says that it is not generally accepted (he himself prefers a pronunciation with a long vowel). Gil twice shows lengthening of this ă to identity with ME ā (see Vol. I, pp. 145-6) […] But ME ĕ is recorded for heard by Cheke (beside ă), Bullokar, Mulcaster (but his evidence is of uncertain value), Robinson (beside ă), and RS; so possibly Merriott, who equates herd with heard, and Brown, who gives herd as a ‘phonetic’ spelling of heard.
Anagrams
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī). Compare Old Frisian herd, Old Saxon hard, Old Dutch hart, Old High German hart, Old Norse harðr, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃 (hardus).
Pronunciation
Adjective
heard
Declension
Declension of heard — Strong
Declension of heard — Weak
Derived terms
- fyrheard (“tempered, fire-hardened”)
- heardcwide (“harsh language”)
- hearde (“severely”)
- heardecg (“hard of edge”)
- heardfyrde (“difficult to carry”)
- heardhēaw (“a chisel”)
- heardheort (“hard-hearted”)
- heardheortness (“hard-heartedness”)
- heardhicgende (“bold in purpose”)
- heardian (“to harden”)
- hearding (“a hero”)
- heardlīċ (“severe”)
- heardlīċe (“hardly”)
- heardlīcness (“hardness”)
- heardmōd (“brave”)
- heardmōdness (“hardness of heart”)
- heardneb (“hard-beak”)
- heardnes (“hardness”)
- heardrǣd (“steadfast”)
- heardsǣliġ (“unfortunate”)
- heardsǣlness (“misfortune”)
- heardsǣlþ (“a hard fate”)
- heardwendlīċe (“severely”)