hired

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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"

     Eft cwæð se Ælmihtiga to þam witegan Isaiam, "Clypa and ne geswic ðu, ahefe þine stemne swā swā byme, and cȳð minum folce heora leahtras, and Iacobes hīrede heora synna."

     Again the Almighty spake to the prophet Isaiah, "Cry and cease thou not, raise thy 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