different between hed vs hef

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic 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.

Related terms

• unhed

Etymology 2

Altered spelling of had.

Verb

hed

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.

Anagrams

• edh

Danish

Verb

hed

1. imperative of hedde
2. past tense of hedde

Manx

Verb

hed

1. future independent analytic form of immee

Middle English

Noun

hed

1. Alternative form of heed

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. 6^c9

   • 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. 21^a8

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish heþ, from Old Norse heiðr, from Proto-Germanic *haiþ?, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *?ayt-.

Noun

hed c

1. A moor; an extensive waste land.

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

hef (plural hefs)

1. (abbreviation) hefeweizen

Anagrams

• Fe/H, feh

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch heft, from Middle Dutch hefte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f/

Noun

hef (plural hefte)

1. handle

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

hef

1. first-person singular present indicative of heffen
2. imperative of heffen

Middle English

Verb

hef

1. past tense of heave

Old Norse

Verb

hef

1. inflection of hefja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active