hire
English
/haɪə/, /haɪɹ/
noun
Definitions
- Payment for the temporary use of something.
- (obsolete) Reward, payment.
- The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
- A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hire inherited from Old English hȳr (interest on money lent, pay for service, hire, employment for wages) inherited from *hūʀiju (hire) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kewHs-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dehire English
- hirable English
- hiree English
- hireless English
- hireman English
- hirer English
- hireworthy English
- man English
- outhire English
- overhire English
- prehire English
- rehire English
- unhirable English
- unhire English
- huur Dutch, Flemish
- huurbescherming Dutch, Flemish
- huurmoordenaar Dutch, Flemish
- *kewHs- Proto-Indo-European
- hiere Old English
- hyreborg Old English
- hyrling Old English
- hyrmann Old English
- hȳr Old English
- hire Middle English
- hire-man Middle English
- hires Middle English
- hûre Middle Dutch
- *hūʀiju gmw-pro
- *hūra Old Dutch
- huria Old Saxon
- hier Western Frisian
- hēr Old Frisian
- hēre Old Frisian
- hür Papiamentu