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heid

heid

See also: -heid

Old Norse

Adjective

heid

  1. gleaming

Scots

Etymology

From Old English hēafod (compare English head), from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (compare Dutch hoofd, German Haupt, Swedish huvud), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput- (head) (compare Latin caput), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *kapōlo (head, bowl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hid/

Noun

heid (plural heids)

  1. head

Synonyms


Veps

Pronoun

heid

  1. partitive of