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English
Pronunciation
Verb
hid
- simple past of hide
- (archaic) past participle of hide
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: , volume II, London: 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
Adverb
hid
- (archaic) hither, to here, towards this place
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hid
- Alternative form of hide (“concealment”)
Etymology 2
Pronoun
hid
- Alternative form of hit (“it”)
Etymology 3
Noun
hid (plural hides)
- Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)
Etymology 4
Noun
hid
- Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)
Etymology 5
Verb
hid (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)
- 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
Old English
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /xiːd/,
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.
Declension
Declension of hīd (strong ō-stem)
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