hired

English Online Dictionary. What means hired‎? What does hired mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪɹd/, /ˈhaɪɚd/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

Verb

hired

1. simple past and past participle of hire

Anagrams

• hider, rehid, rheid

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hired

1. Alternative form of hird (“household”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• hirid, hyrede, hyrid, hyryd

Verb

hired

1. inflection of hiren (“to hire”):
   1. first/third-person singular past indicative
   2. past participle

Old English

Alternative forms

• hēored, hīered, hīorad, hīræd, hīrd, hȳred

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hīwarād (“family, marriage”). Cognate with Old High German hīrāt (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English hīwen (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiː.red/, [ˈhiː.red]

Noun

hīred m

1. family, household
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Preface"

2. retinue
3. company, brotherhood

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hird, herd, herde, hert, hired, hyrd, hyrt, hirð, hireden, hirt
• → Old Norse: hirð
  • Icelandic: hirð
  • Faroese: hirð
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hird, hyrd
    • → English: hird
  • Old Swedish: hirþ
    • Swedish: hird
  • Danish: hird
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hird
      • → English: hird