different between hird vs hind

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)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *?em-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *?óm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????? (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

Adjective

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

Derived terms

• hind leg
• hindlook
• hindsight

Translations

Etymology 2

Wikispecies From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, from Proto-Germanic *hind?, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *?em- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

Synonyms

• (female deer): doe

Derived terms

• hindberry

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English h?(?)na, genitive plural of h??a (“servant, family member”), in the phrase h?na fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hind.

Anagrams

• Dinh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hen?/, [hen?]

Noun

hind c (singular definite hinden, plural indefinite hinder or hinde)

1. hind (female deer)

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta. Cognate with Finnish hinta.

Noun

hind (genitive hinna, partitive hinda)

1. price

Declension

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/

Etymology 1

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. membrane

Declension

Synonyms

• hinna

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. hind (female deer)

Declension

Derived terms

• hindber

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, nominative plural hindir)

1. female deer, hind

Declension

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hind?, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xind/, [hind]

Noun

hind f

1. hind

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hind, hinde, hynde
  • Scots: hynde, hynd, hind
  • English: hind

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “hind”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Alternative forms

• hynd, hynde, hyne, hin, hine

Etymology

From Early Scots hyne (“stripling”), from Northumbrian Old English h??u or h??an (“members of a household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?in(d)/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /?h?nd/

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially a ploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.

Derived terms

• hindin (“the act of being a hind”)
• hindish (“to be like a hind; rustic”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hind, cognate with Old High German hinta, German Hinde, English hind.

Noun

hind c

1. a doe, a hind; the female of deer

   skygg som en hind

   shy as a doe

Declension

References

• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)