Hire
Old English hȳrian ‘employ someone for wages’, hȳr ‘payment under contract for the use of something’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch huren (verb), huur (noun).
wiktionary
From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr(“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju(“hire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭(kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier(“hire”), Dutch huur(“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür(“lease, rental”).
From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian(“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere(“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren(“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren(“to rent”), Danish hyre(“to hire”).
Eclipsed Middle English souden(“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre(“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold(“salary, military pay”).
etymonline
hire (v.)
Old English hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from Proto-Germanic *hurjan (source also of Danish hyre, Old Frisian hera, Dutch huren, German heuern "to hire, rent"), of uncertain origin. Reflexively, "to agree to work for wages" from mid-13c. Related: Hired; hiring.
hire (n.)
"payment for work, use, or services; wages," from late Old English hyr "wages; interest, usury," from the verb or from a Proto-Germanic *hurja- (see hire (v.)). Cognate with Old Frisian here, Dutch huur, German heuer, Danish hyre.
