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Middle English
Noun
heid
- (Northern) Alternative form of heed
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
heid f (definite singular heidi, indefinite plural heidar, definite plural heidarne or heidane)
- (pre-1917) alternative form of hei
Old Norse
Etymology
From heiðr (“brightness, honor, worth”).
Adjective
heid
- gleaming
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English heid, heifd, northern forms of heed, heved, from Old English hēafod (compare English head), from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (compare Dutch hoofd, German Haupt, Swedish huvud), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput- (“head”) (compare Latin caput), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *kapōlo (“head, bowl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
heid (plural heids)
- head
Synonyms
Veps
Pronoun
heid
- partitive of hö