hed
See also: -hed and he'd
English
Etymology 1
Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.
Noun
hed (plural heds)
- (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
- Archaic spelling of head.
Related terms
- unhed
Etymology 2
Altered spelling of had.
Verb
hed
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
Anagrams
- edh
Danish
Verb
hed
- imperative of hedde
- past tense of hedde
Manx
Verb
hed
- future independent analytic formal of immee
Old Irish
Pronoun
hed
- Alternative spelling of ed
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21a8
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- This is what I pray.
- Is hed inso no·guidimm.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21a8
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.
Noun
hed c
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Declension
| Declension of hed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | hed | heden | hedar | hedarna |
| Genitive | heds | hedens | hedars | hedarnas |