hede

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)

1. (obsolete) Rank; order; condition; quality.

Related terms

• hade
• -head, -hood
• hode

Anagrams

• ehed, heed

Danish

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hede

Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heːðə/,
• Rhymes: -ðə

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heiðr (“heath, moor”).

Noun

hede c (singular definite heden, plural indefinite heder)

1. A heath.
2. A moor.

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hiti, hita.

Noun

hede c (singular definite heden, not used in plural form)

1. heat

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hee

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hēde, eastern variant of herde, heerde, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀdā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeː.də/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: he‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə

Noun

hede f (plural hedens)

1. (dialectal) tow, hards.

   Synonym: werk

Finnish

Etymology

he(i)ti- +‎ -e. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1859.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhedeˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification^(key): he‧de

Noun

hede

1. (botany) stamen

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• emi
• palho
• ponsi
• siitepöly

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 2023-07-02

Latin

Noun

hede

1. vocative singular of hedus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From heden.

Alternative forms

• hiede, heede

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːd(ə)/

Noun

hede (plural hedes)

1. heed

Descendants

• English: heed
• Yola: heed

References

• “hẹ̄d, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

hede

1. 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

1. Alternative form of heed

Sranan Tongo

Noun

hede

1. Archaic form of ede.