Clipping ofEnglishHidatsa.
hid
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forHidatsa.
hid
- simplepast ofhide
- (archaic)pastparticiple ofhide
1815 December (indicated as1816), [Jane Austen], chapter I, inEmma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] forJohn 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 quitehid, 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”, inSpecimens of Early English[1], volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393,Oxford:Clarendon Press, page490:Todark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to liehid, as, 'Terattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
FromOld Danishhidh, fromOld Norsehit.
hid
- (archaic)hither, tohere, towards this place
hid
- alternative form ofhide(“concealment”)
hid
- alternative form ofhit(“it”)
hid
- alternative form ofhyde(“skin”)
hid
- alternative form ofhythe(“landing place, port”)
hid
- alternative form ofhiden(“to hide”)
hid
- alternative form ofhideth:third-personsingularpresent ofhiden
- alternative form ofhidde:simplepast/pastparticiple ofhiden
hid
- alternative form ofhyed:simplepast/pastparticiple ofhyen
IPA(key): /xiːd/,[hiːd]
hīd f
- a portion ofland; ahide
- late 9th century,translation ofBede'sEcclesiastical History
Þonne is on ēasteweardre Cent myċel ēaland Tenet, þæt is syx hundhīda 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 hundredhides 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.
Strongō-stem:
Inherited fromChagataiاید(id), fromKhorezmian Turkicییذ(yıḏ), fromKarakhanidیٖیذْ(yīḏ/yï̄ḏ/), fromProto-Turkic*yï̄d. Cognate withAzerbaijaniiy,Uyghurھىد(hid).
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hid (pluralhidlar)
- smell,scent,odor
