English
hidate
From hide (“unit of land”) + -ate (verb forming suffix).
Formed from hide ‘unit of land’ + -ate
Proto-Germanic *huzdą ‘treasure, hoard’
Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną ‘to hoard’
Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan ‘to conceal’
Old English hȳdan ‘to hide’
Middle English hiden ‘to conceal’
English hide
Today it means
verb To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hidate