different between gird vs hird

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijan? (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

Verb

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded or girt)

1. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

   The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.

2. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.

   The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.

   Our home is girt by sea... - Advance Australia Fair
3. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself for an action.

Derived terms

• begird
• undergird
• ungird

Related terms

• girder
• girdle
• gird up one’s loins
• girt

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gird (plural girds)

1. A sarcastic remark.

2. A stroke with a rod or switch.
3. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion

     Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

Translations

Verb

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded)

1. (transitive) To jeer at.

2. (intransitive) To jeer.

Translations

Anagrams

• GRID, grid

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• g?rd

Adjective

gird

1. big

English

Etymology

From Middle English hird, from Old English h?r?d, h?r?de, variants of earlier h?r?den (“family, household”), from Proto-Germanic *h?war?daz (“relationship; family”), equivalent to hewe +? -red. Cognate with German Heirat (“wedding”).

Noun

hird (plural hirds)

1. (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
2. By extension, the formal royal court household.

Derived terms

• hirdman

Anagrams

• HDRI, IRHD

Norwegian

Pronunciation

Noun

hird

1. An informal retinue of personal armed companions.
2. By extension, the formal royal court household.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hirþ (“bodyguard”), from Proto-Germanic *h?war?daz (“relationship; family”). Related to German Heirat (“wedding”) and English hired. See also Icelandic hirð.

Noun

hird c

1. (historical) bodyguard for chieftain or king

Declension

Derived terms

• hirdman

References

• hird in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hird in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hird in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• hird in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)