different between heire vs hire
heire
English
Noun
heire (plural heires)
- Obsolete form of heir.
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
- How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
Anagrams
- Heier, hiree
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
heire (plural heires or heiren)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 2
Noun
heire (plural heires)
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly derived from Danish hejre which, like hegre, is derived from Old Norse hegri.
Noun
heire m (definite singular heiren, indefinite plural heirer, definite plural heirene)
- Alternative spelling of hegre
References
- “heire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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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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