Heck
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From German Heck, the surname.
Proper noun[edit]
Heck
- A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
Etymology 2[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Heck
- A surname, possibly from German.
Etymology 3[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Heck
- A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
- A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German heck (“wooden fencing”), from Old Saxon *hekki, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju. The sense “back of a ship” because the position of the helmsman in the stern was enclosed by such a fence. Cognate to Dutch hek, English hatch.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Heck n (strong, genitive Hecks or Heckes, plural Hecks or (less common) Hecke)
Usage notes[edit]
- The more common plural is Hecks.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Heck [neuter, strong]
Antonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- Backbord (ship)
- Steuerbord (ship)
Proper noun[edit]
Heck m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hecks or (with an article) Heck, feminine genitive Heck, plural Hecks)
- a surname
Declension[edit]
Declension of Heck [masculine // feminine, surname]
singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | feminine | |||||||
indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | (ein) | (der) | Heck | (eine) | (die) | Heck | (die) | Hecks |
genitive | (eines) | (des) | Hecks, Heck1 | (einer) | (der) | Heck | (der) | Hecks |
dative | (einem) | (dem) | Heck | (einer) | (der) | Heck | (den) | Hecks |
accusative | (einen) | (den) | Heck | (eine) | (die) | Heck | (die) | Hecks |
1With an article.
Further reading[edit]
- “Heck” in Duden online
- “Heck” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Heck” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Heck” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Heck on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Luxembourgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German hegge, from Old High German heggia, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. Cognate with German Hecke, Dutch heg, English hedge.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Heck f (plural Hecken)
Synonyms[edit]
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɛk
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- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- en:Villages in Scotland
- en:Places in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- German terms derived from Middle Low German
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