hid

See also: HID and híd

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭd, IPA^(key): /hɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Verb

hid

1. simple past of hide
2. (archaic) past participle of hide
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:17:

     Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 6:

     Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.

   • 1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English‎^[1], volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:

     To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

Anagrams

• HDI

Danish

Adverb

hid

1. (archaic) hither, to here, towards this place

Synonyms

• hertil

Coordinate terms

• did, der

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hid

1. Alternative form of hide (“concealment”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hid

1. Alternative form of hit (“it”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hid (plural hides)

1. Alternative form of hyde (“skin”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hid

1. Alternative form of hythe (“landing place, port”)

Etymology 5

Verb

hid (third-person singular simple present hideth, present participle hidende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hidde)

1. Alternative form of hiden (“to hide”)

Verb

hid

1. Alternative form of hideth: third-person singular present of hiden
2. Alternative form of hidde: simple past/past participle of hiden

Etymology 6

Verb

hid

1. Alternative form of hyed: simple past/past participle of hyen

Old English

Alternative forms

• hȳd, hīġed

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xiːd/, [hiːd]

Noun

hīd f

1. a portion of land; a hide
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Þonne is on ēasteweardre Cent myċel ēaland Tenet, þæt is syx hund hīda miċel æfter Angelcynnes ǣhte. Þæt ēalond tōsċēadeð Wantsumo strēam frām þām tōġeþeoddan lande. Sē is þreora furlunga brād: ⁊ on twām stōwum is oferfernes, ⁊ ǣġhwæþer ende līð on sǣ.

     Now to the east of Cent there is the great island of Thanet, which contains six hundred hides by the English manner of reckoning. The island separates the Wantsum Channel from the adjacent land. It is three furlongs wide; and it can be crossed in two places, and at each end flows into the sea.

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hīd	hīda, hīde
accusative	hīde	hīda, hīde
genitive	hīde	hīda
dative	hīde	hīdum

Descendants

• Middle English: hide, hyde
  • English: hide
  • Scots: hyd, hid

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “híd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.