gehieran

Old English

Alternative forms

• ġehīran, ġehȳran, ġehēran

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gahauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *gahauzijaną, equivalent to ġe- +‎ hīeran. Cognate with Old Saxon gihōrian, Old High German gihōren (modern German gehören (“to belong”)), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gahausjan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈxi͜yː.rɑn/, [jeˈhi͜yː.rɑn]

Verb

ġehīeran

1. to hear
   • "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 11, verse 4

     Ðā sē Hǣlend þæt ġehȳrde, þā cwæð hē tō him, Nys þēos untrumnys nā for dēaðe, ac for Godes wuldre, þæt Godes Sunu, sī ġewuldrod þurh hyne.

     When the Healer (Jesus) heard that, then he said to him, This sickness is not for death, but instead for God's glory, that God's Son be glorified through him.

2. to listen
   • 11th century, unknown translator, the Old English Apollonius of Tyre

     Þā ġeseah hē ānne nacodne cnapan ġeond þā strǣte rinnan. Sē wæs mid ele ġesmiered and mid sċīetan beġierded, and cleopode mid miċelre stefne and cwæþ, "Ġehīeraþ ġē ċeasterwaran, ġehīeraþ ġē ælþēodiġe, friġe and þēowe, æðele and unæðele: sē bæþstede is open!"

     Then he saw a naked boy running through the street. His body was smeared with oil and he was wearing a sheet around his waist, when he called out in a loud voice, "Attention citizens, attention foreigners, free and slave, noble and ignoble: the bathhouse is open!"

3. to hear judicially, to try
4. (with dative) to obey
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"

     Eft embe geara ymbrynum hé wearð on his fulluhte on þysum dæge middangearde geswutelod, ðaða se Halga Gást, on culfran hīwe, uppon him gereste, and þæs Fæder stemn of heofenum hlúde swegde, þus cweðende, "Þes is min leofa Sunu, þe me wél licað; ġehȳrað him."

     Again, after a course of years, he was, at his baptism, manifested to the world, when the Holy Ghost, in likeness of a dove, rested upon him, and the voice of the Father sounded loudly from heaven, thus saying, "This is my beloved Son who well pleaseth me; obey him."

5. to belong
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"

     Þeos towritennys wearð aræred fram ðam ealdormen Cyrino, of Sirian lande, þæt ælc man ofer-hēafod sceolde cennan his gebyrde, and his áre on ðære byrig þe hé to gehyrde.

     This enrolment was set forth from Cyrenius, the governor of Syria—that every man in general should declare his birth and his possession in the city to which he belonged.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ġehīeran (weak class 1)

infinitive	ġehīeran	ġehīerenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ġehīere	ġehīerde
second person singular	ġehīerest, ġehīerst	ġehīerdest
third person singular	ġehīereþ, ġehīerþ	ġehīerde
plural	ġehīeraþ	ġehīerdon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ġehīere	ġehīerde
plural	ġehīeren	ġehīerden
imperative
singular	ġehīer
plural	ġehīeraþ
participle	present	past
	ġehīerende	ġehīered

Derived terms

• ġehīerendlīċ
• ġehīernes
• ġehīersum

Descendants

• Middle English: iheren, yheren