hed

See also: -hed and he'd

English

Etymology

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the 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.
  • unhed

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

hed

  1. imperative of hedde
  2. past tense of hedde

Manx

Verb

hed

  1. future independent analytical form of immee

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. 21a8
      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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hed heden hedar hedarna
Genitive heds hedens hedars hedarnas
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