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hird
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)
- (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
- By extension, the formal royal court household.
Derived terms
- hirdman
Anagrams
- HDRI, IRHD
Norwegian
Pronunciation
Noun
hird
- An informal retinue of personal armed companions.
- 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
- (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)
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hire
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?r, h???r, IPA(key): /ha??/, /?ha??/
- (General American) enPR: h?r, h???r, IPA(key): /ha??/, /?ha??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Homophone: higher
Etymology 1
From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English h?r (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *h??iju (“hire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-. Compare Hittite ???????????? (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).
Noun
hire (plural hires)
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- (obsolete) Reward, payment.
- The labourer is worthy of his hire.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
Synonyms
- (state of being hired): employment, employ
Derived terms
- hire car
- hireling
- hireman
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English hiren, heren, huren, from Old English h?rian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”).
Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).
Verb
hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)
- (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
- Synonym: rent
- (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
- (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
- (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
- (intransitive) To accept employment.
Antonyms
- (to employ): fire
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- rent
Anagrams
- ReHi, heir, rehi
Abron
Etymology
From Akan hyire (“white clay”).
Noun
hire
- white clay
References
- Trutenau, Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics (1976)
Basque
Pronunciation
- (Southern) IPA(key): /i.?e/
- (Northern) IPA(key): /hi.?e/
Pronoun
hire
- genitive of hi, your
Japanese
Romanization
hire
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle Dutch
Contraction
hire
- Contraction of hi d?er.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hez?i, dative singular plural of *hiz (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e (“here; this”).
Alternative forms
- hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huere
Determiner
hire (nominative pronoun sche)
- Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her.
- Used in place of the possessive suffix -es to denote possession by an antecedent noun.
- 1430, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
- Here begynnyt the wyf of bathe hir tale.
- 1430, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
Synonyms
- his
Descendants
- English: her
- Scots: her
See also
Pronoun
hire (nominative sche)
- Third-person singular feminine genitive pronoun: hers.
Synonyms
- hires
References
- “hir, pron.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.
Etymology 2
From Old English hire.
Pronoun
hire (nominative sche)
- Third-person singular feminine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: her.
- (reflexive) herself.
- Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
See also
References
- “hir(e), pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.
Etymology 3
From Old English here.
Noun
hire
- Alternative form of here (“army”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
hire
- neuter singular of hiren
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xi.re/, [?hi.re]
Pronoun
hire
- genitive/dative of h?o
Descendants
- Middle English: hire, hir, hyre, hyr, ire, ir, here, her, ere, er, heyre, heore, hare, hure, hur, hurre, huere
- English: her
- Scots: her
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