hed
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- A moor; an extensive waste land.
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish heþ inherited from Old Norse heiðr (honor, heath, worth, bright, moor, dignity) inherited from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (heath, wasteland, untilled land, waste) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (pasture, forest, wasteland).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kayt-
Gloss
pasture, forest, wasteland
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
森
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- heath English
- heathclad English
- heathcropper English
- heathland English
- heathless English
- heathlike English
- heathwort English
- heathwren English
- heathy English
- bucetum Latin
- *kayt- Proto-Indo-European
- *haiduz Proto-Germanic
- *haiþī Proto-Germanic
- Hedman Swedish
- hedpiplärka Swedish
- man Swedish
- piplärka Swedish
- heider Norwegian Nynorsk
- hæþ Old English
- hǣþ Old English
- heeth Middle English
- heiðr Old Norse
- hede Danish
- hæder Danish
- heiði Icelandic
- heiður Icelandic
- heiði Faroese
- heiður Faroese
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹 Gothic
- *haiþi gmw-pro
- *kaitos Proto-Celtic
- hētha Old Saxon
- heþ Old Swedish
- hēdher Old Swedish
- *hēthe Old Frisian