different between hend vs hed

English

Etymology

From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ?ehendan (“take hold of”), from Proto-Germanic *handijan? (“to grasp; grab by hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian henda (“to take hold of; seize”), Icelandic henda (“to take hold of by hand; seize; fling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)

1. (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1

     Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage.

Anagrams

• Dehn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hend n (definite singular hendet, indefinite plural hend, definite plural henda)

1. (rare) alternative form of hende n

Participle

hend (neuter hendt, definite singular and plural hende)

1. past participle of henda

Verb

hend

1. imperative of henda
2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of henda

References

• “hend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English henden, from Old English *hendan, ?ehendan, from Proto-West Germanic *handijan.

Verb

hend (simple past hent)

1. to hold

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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