heed
Middle English
/hɛːd/
noun
Definitions
- head top portion of a human or animal, connected to the neck:
- The chief, most renowned or most prominent thing or person in a group:
- start, origin
- The functional or useful end of a tool or device.
- A rounded or head-shaped bump, boil, or similar protrusion.
- One's ability to live
- impetuousness, rashness, impatience; being unconsidered.
- (by extension) individual; someone or somebody
- (rare) military force or troop
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hēafod (head, top, origin, chief, leader, capital, source) inherited from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (head).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*haubudą
Gloss
head
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- headless English
- spearhead English
- *kaput- Proto-Indo-European
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- *káput Proto-Indo-European
- *káput- Proto-Indo-European
- *haubudą Proto-Germanic
- heafdeht Old English
- heafod Old English
- heafodcirice Old English
- heafodclaþ Old English
- heafodleas Old English
- heafodlic Old English
- heafodling Old English
- heafodmæg Old English
- heafodpanne Old English
- heafodstol Old English
- heafodwind Old English
- heafodwund Old English
- heafodædre Old English
- hēafod Old English
- hēafodlēas Old English
- oferheafod Old English
- hed Middle English
- heedles Middle English
- heid Middle English
- hogges Middle English
- hoggeshed Middle English
- hogshead Middle English
- spere Middle English
- spere-hed Middle English
- hǫfuð Old Norse
- hoggeshed Old French
- houbit Old High German
- houpt Old High German
- 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸 Gothic
- hovit Old Dutch
- hōvit Old Dutch
- hovid Old Saxon
- haad Western Frisian
- hâved Old Frisian
- hiöt Vilamovian
- hoef Crimean Gothic