hed

See also: -hed and he'd

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.

Noun

hed (plural heds)

1. (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.
2. Archaic spelling of head.

Related terms

• K-hed
• unhed

 

Etymology 2

Altered spelling of had.

Verb

hed

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.

Etymology 3

See heed.

Verb

hed

1. (informal, obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of heed

   They finally hed my warnings!

Anagrams

• edh

Danish

Verb

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past of hedde

Manx

Verb

hed

1. future independent analytic form of immee

Middle English

Noun

hed

1. Alternative form of heed

North Frisian

Verb

hed

1. inflection of haa:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. plural preterite
   3. past participle

Old Irish

Pronoun

hed

1. 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. 6^c9

     Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.

     It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.

   • 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. 9^a22

     Is hed no·molfar.

     It is [this] that I shall praise.

   • 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. 21^a8

     Is hed inso no·guidimm.

     This is what I pray.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt-.

Noun

hed c

1. A moor; an extensive waste land.

Declension

Declension of hed

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hed	heds
	definite	heden	hedens
plural	indefinite	hedar	hedars
	definite	hedarna	hedarnas