hide

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To put yourself somewhere where you cannot be seen or found.

   The children love to hide behind the curtains.

2. 2
   verb

   To put something somewhere it cannot be seen or found.

   He hides his magazines under the bed.

3. 3
   verb

   To keep a feeling or fact secret so others do not notice it.

   She tried to hide her disappointment.

4. 4
   noun

   The skin of a large animal, used to make leather.

   The floor was covered with the hide of a bear.

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Simplified etymology

Hide has two unrelated Old English histories. The noun meaning “an animal’s skin” descends from an ancient root also represented by Latin cutis “skin,” the source of cuticle. The verb meaning “put or keep out of sight” is also Old English but has a separate origin.

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle. Cognates Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to…

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