# heed
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiːd/
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* Homophone: he'd
* Rhymes: -iːd

### Noun

heed (uncountable)
* Careful attention.
** [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

#### Synonyms

* (careful attention): attention, notice, observation, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention

#### Derived terms

* give heed
* heedful
* heedless
* pay heed
* pay no heed
* take heed

#### Collocations

* give, pay or take

#### Translations
### Verb

heed (third-person singular simple present heeds, present participle heeding, simple past and past participle heeded)
* (obsolete) To guard, protect.
* (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
** 1567, Ovid, translated by John Dryden, Metamorphoses, Book 1:With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
** 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:"It comes back to me that I wanted to say something to the driver and that I couldn't make him heed me."
** 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
** 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 September 2013:Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
** 2020 July 29, David Clough, “AC/DC: the big switch in power supply”, in Rail, page 65:Barker's proposal to try out new equipment before mass introduction should also have been heeded, because traction components bought without trialling for the Glasgow and Great Eastern schemes gave trouble.
* (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* ehed, hede

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English hēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).

#### Alternative forms

* hed, hede, heede, hedde, had, hade, head, heid, hiede, hide, heyd, hyede, hyde, het, heved, haved, hefed, hewed, hafed, haphed, hived, hyved, hefd, hefde, hevd, efd, hevid, hevyd
* heid, heifd, heyd, heyfd (Northern)
* hevod, heveð, heaved, heaveð, eaved, heafod, heafoð, heafad, hæved, hæfed, hæfedd, hæfved, hafved, heofod, hevet, hefet, heavet, hæfet, havet, heafd, heafde, hæfd, hæfde, heifd, heyfd, hafd, hafde, hifde, hyfde (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛːd/, /ˈhɛvəd/, /ˈhɛːvəd/, /hɛvd/, /hɛːvd/

#### Noun

heed (plural heedes)
* The head (top portion of an animal):
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.
** A headrest; a place for the head.
** A head-covering; headwear or hair.
** The head as the origin of thought; intellect or one's brain.
** The horns or antlers of a cervid.
* A start or origin:
** The top of a waterbody or geographical feature.
** One of the lengthwise ends of a geographical feature.
** The source of a river; the headwater.
** The uppermost point of something; the top.
** The outermost extremity of something.
* The useful end of a tool.
* A rounded bump or boil.
* One's ability to survive.
* Lack of consideration; impetuousness, rashness.
* (by extension) An individual; someone or somebody
* (rare) A military force or troop.

##### Related terms

* forheed
* heedles
* hoggeshed
* spere-hed

##### Descendants

* English: head, heed, hed (obsolete), 'ead (UK, eye dialect)
** → Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)
** Sranan Tongo: ede
*** Aukan: ede
*** Saramaccan: hédi
* Geordie English: heed
* Scots: heid
* Yola: heade, haade, hade

#### References

* p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
* “hēd, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-12.

### Etymology 2

From Old English hēafod-, from Proto-West Germanic *haubida- (“main”), derived from the noun *haubid (“head”).

#### Adjective

heed
* main; head, chief, principle

##### Descendants

* English: head
* Scots: heid

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

heed (uncountable)
* Alternative form of hed (“heed”)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

heed
* Alternative form of hadde: simple past/past participle of haven (“to have”)

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English hede.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiːd/
* Homophone: hea'de

### Noun

heed
* heed
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Taake heed.Take heed.

#### Derived terms

* taake heed

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71