hæs

From Old Norse háss.

hæs (neuter hæst, plural and definite singular attributive hæse, comparative hæsere, superlative (predicative) hæsest, superlative (attributive) hæseste)

1. hoarse

Related to hatan (“to command, order”)

• IPA^(key): /xæːs/, [hæːs]

hǣs f

1. command, order
2. obligatory office or service

Strong ō-stem:

• behǣs f
• nīedhǣs f (“command through compulsion”)

• Middle English: heste, este, has, hees, heest, heeste, hes, hese, heaste, hæse (Early Middle English)
  • English: hest
  • Middle Scots: heist, hest, heste
  • Yola: heste

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “HǢS”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “HǢS supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.