heder
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- honour, dignity; what makes a person praiseworthy
Etymology
Derived from Old Swedish hēdher derived from Old Norse heiðr (honor, heath, worth, bright, moor, dignity) derived from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (state, condition, manner, appearance, character, kind, quality, personality, person, rank, way) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kayt-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kayt-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hade English
- *(s)kayt- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kāy- Proto-Indo-European
- *haiduz Proto-Germanic
- *haiþī Proto-Germanic
- betyga Swedish
- hedersam Swedish
- hedersbetygelse Swedish
- hedersknyffel Swedish
- hedra Swedish
- knyffel Swedish
- heider Norwegian Nynorsk
- *-hǣd Old English
- -had Old English
- -hād Old English
- had Old English
- hād Old English
- hade Middle English
- heiðr Old Norse
- heiðra Old Norse
- hede Danish
- hæder Danish
- heiði Icelandic
- heiður Icelandic
- -heit Old High German
- heit Old High German
- heiði Faroese
- heiður Faroese
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- -heid Old Dutch
- -heit Middle Low German
- -hed Old Saxon
- heþ Old Swedish
- hēdher Old Swedish