heah
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English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]heah (not comparable)
- (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of here, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 46:
- ‘Yeah, uh store right heah in town wid everything in it you needs.’
Adjective
[edit]heah (not comparable)
- (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of here, representing African-American Vernacular English.
See also
[edit]Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Cognate with Old Frisian hāh, Old Saxon hōh, Old High German hōh, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hēah (comparative hīerra, superlative hīehst)
- high, tall
- Caedmon's metrical paraphrase
- ...seoððan þū þonne hafast handum āmetene hū hēh and dēop hell inneweard sēo, grim græfhūs, gong ricene tō...
- ...then, after thou hast with thy hands measured how high and deep hell is within, the grim grave-house, go forthwith to...
- Caedmon's metrical paraphrase
- exalted, important
- proud
- deep
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- wlonc bī wealle. · Sume wīġ fornōm,
ferede in forðweġe; · sumne fugel ōþbær
ofer hēanne holm; · sumne sē hāra wulf
dēaðe ġedǣlde, · sumne drēoriġhlēor
in eorðsċræfe · eorl ġehȳdde.- proud by the wall. The war took away some men,
carried into the forth-way; a bird bore away someone
over deep sea; the grey wolf shared someone with death;
a sad-faced warrior hid someone in earthen cave.
- proud by the wall. The war took away some men,
- right (as opposed to left)
- (in compounds) main, principal, arch-
- hēahfæder ― patriarch
- hēahenġel ― arch-angel
- hēahcleofa ― main chamber
- (in compounds) denotes intensification, completion or perfection
- hēahfæst ― permanent, immutable
Usage notes
[edit]Names formed with the element hēah, such as Reġenhēah, are always masculine.[1]
Declension
[edit]Declension of hēah — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | hēah | hēah | hēah |
Accusative | hēane, hēanne | hēa | hēah |
Genitive | hēas | hēare, hēarre | hēas |
Dative | hēam, hēaum | hēare, hēarre | hēam, hēaum |
Instrumental | hēa | hēare, hēarre | hēa |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | hēa | hēa | hēah |
Accusative | hēa | hēa | hēah |
Genitive | hēara, hēarra | hēara, hēarra | hēara, hēarra |
Dative | hēam, hēaum | hēam, hēaum | hēam, hēaum |
Instrumental | hēam, hēaum | hēam, hēaum | hēam, hēaum |
Declension of hēah — Weak
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- hēahbisċop (“archbishop”)
- hēahstede
- hēahweġ
- hēalīċe
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Elizabeth Okasha (2011) Women's Names in Old English, London, England: Routledge, page 1
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