hede

From Middle English hede, from Old English *hǣdu, feminine form of Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality; degree, rank, order, office; condition, state, nature, form, manner; sex; race, family, tribe; choir”), from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”). Cognate with Middle High German heit (“person, order, rank”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner, way”). More at hade.

hede (plural hedes)

1. (obsolete) Rank; order; condition; quality.

• hade
• -head, -hood
• hode

• ehed, heed

• IPA^(key): /heːðə/, [ˈheːðə]
• Rhymes: -ðə

From Old Norse heiðr (“heath, moor”).

hede c (singular definite heden, plural indefinite heder)

1. A heath.
2. A moor.

From Old Norse hiti, hita.

hede c (singular definite heden, not used in plural form)

1. heat

• hee

From Middle Dutch hēde, eastern variant of herde, heerde, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀdā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeː.də/

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• Hyphenation: he‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə

hede f (plural hedens)

1. (dialectal) tow, hards.

   Synonym: werk

Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in the 1850s, from he(i)ti- +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhedeˣ/, [ˈhe̞de̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification^(key): he‧de

hede

1. (botany) stamen

• nouns: hetiö

• hedekukka
• hedelehti

• emi
• palho
• ponsi
• siitepöly

hede

1. vocative singular of hedus

From heden.

• hiede, heede

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːd(ə)/

hede (plural hedes)

1. heed

• English: heed
• Yola: heed

• “hẹ̄d, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

hede

1. Alternative form of hod
   • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."‎, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

     Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

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hede

1. Alternative form of heed

hede

1. Alternative form of ede