hired

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See also: híred

English

Pronunciation

Verb

hired

  1. simple past and past participle of hire

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hired

  1. Alternative form of hird (“household”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

hired

  1. inflection of hiren (“to hire”):
    1. first/third-person singular past indicative
    2. past participle

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hīwarād (“family, marriage”). Cognate with Old High German hīrāt (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English hīwen (“household”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hīred m

  1. family, household
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"
      Eft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, "Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hīrede heora synna."
      Again the Almighty spake to the prophet Isaiah, "Cry and cease thou not, raise thy voice as a trumpet, and declare to my people their crimes, and to the family of Jacob their sins."
  2. retinue
  3. company, brotherhood

Declension

Declension of hired (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative hīred hīredas
accusative hīred hīredas
genitive hīredes hīreda
dative hīrede hīredum

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