hyd
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English
Verb
hyd
Phrase
hyd
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of how('re) you doing. (how are you doing?)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
- Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hyd (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hide (“concealment, hiding”)
Etymology 3
Verb
hyd
- Alternative form of hyed: simple past/past participle of hyen (“to go quickly”)
Etymology 4
Verb
hyd
- Alternative form of hidde: simple past/past participle of hiden (“to hide”)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz.
Cognate with Old Frisian hūd, Old Saxon hūt, Old High German hūt, Old Norse húð; and with Latin cutis, Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos).
Pronunciation
Noun
hȳd f
Declension
Declension of hȳd (strong i-stem)
Descendants
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gydъ.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
hyd m inan (collective, singular only)
Declension
Declension of hyd
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gydъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 220
Further reading
- “hyd”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh hyt, from Old Welsh hit, from Proto-Celtic *siti- (“length”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /hɨːd/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /hiːd/
- Rhymes: -ɨːd
Noun
hyd m (plural hydoedd, not mutable)
Derived terms
Preposition
hyd (triggers soft mutation)
Inflection
Personal forms (literary)
Derived terms
- ar hyd (“along; throughout”)
- hyd at (“up to, as far as”)
- hyd yn hyn (“so far”)
- hyd yn oed (“even”)
- o hyd (“still; always”)
- dod o hyd (“to find”)
Conjunction
hyd (triggers soft mutation)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hyd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies