hired

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪɹd/, /ˈhaɪɚd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

hired

1. simple past and past participle of hire

• hider, rehid, rheid

hired

1. Alternative form of hird (“household”)

• hirid, hyrede, hyrid, hyryd

hired

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiː.red/, [ˈhiː.red]

hīred m

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

     Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hīrede heora synna.

     Cry and cease not, raise your voice as a trumpet, and declare to my people their crimes, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

2. retinue
3. company, brotherhood

• 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