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English word origin

Etymology of hade

From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

State; order, estate, rank, degree, or quality.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English hade, had, hod, hed, from Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir”), from Proto-West Germanic *haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kāy- (“light, bright, shining”). Cognate with Old Saxon hēd (“condition, rank”), Old High German heit (“person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank”), Old Norse heiðr ("honour, dignity") (whence Danish hæder (“honour”), Swedish heder (“honour”)), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “way, manner”). Same as -hood.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionhadeenm
  • Inherited-form mentionhādang · person, individual, character, individuality, degree, rank, order, office, holy office, condition, state, nature, character, form, manner, sex, race, family, tribe, choir
  • Inherited-form mention*haidugmw-pro
  • Inherited-form mention*haiduzgem-pro · appearance, kind
  • Derivation mention*(s)kāy-ine-pro · light, bright, shining
  • Cognate mentionhēdosx · condition, rank
  • Cognate mentionheitgoh · person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank
  • Cognate mentionheiðrnon
  • Cognate mentionhæderda · honour
  • Cognate mentionhedersv · honour
  • Cognate mention𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃got · way, manner
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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
verb

To slope or incline from the vertical.

noun

A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Uncertain. Perhaps from a dialectal form of head.

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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
noun

A headland; a strip of land at the side of a field upon which a plough may be turned.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Probably from a dialectal or variant form of head. According to Sundby, from Middle English hade, havede, from Old English hēafdum, dative plural of hēafod (“head”) as evidenced in the Worcestershire bynames/surnames atte Haveden, atte Haden, although derivation from other inflected forms (where trisyllabic shortening then open-syllable lengthening would've occured; compare lady) is also possible, in which case the bynames would still attest the dative plural.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionhadeenm
  • Inherited-form mentionhēafdumang
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