Heft

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See also: heft, hëft, and Hëft

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /hɛft/
  • Audio (Germany):(file)
  • Audio (Austria); das heft /das‿ˈhɛft/:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛft

Etymology 1

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18th-century backformation from heften (to fasten), from *haftijaną (to bind, secure).

Alternative forms

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  • H. (abbreviation, chiefly in context)

Noun

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Heft n (strong, genitive Heftes or Hefts, plural Hefte, diminutive Heftchen n)

  1. notebook, writing booklet, cahier, composition book (book in which notes or memoranda are written)
  2. notepad, writing pad (pad of paper on which one jots down notes)
  3. exercise book (booklet for students, containing problems and exercises, or blank pages for writing answers)
  4. number, issue (single edition of a periodical publication)
  5. magazine (non-academic periodical publication)
  6. comic (magazine that uses sequences of drawings to tell a story or series of stories)
Declension
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Hyponyms
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Descendants
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  • Kashubian: hëft

Etymology 2

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From Middle High German hefte, from Old High German hefti, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją (handle, grip). Cognate with Dutch heft, English haft.

Noun

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Heft n (strong, genitive Heftes or Hefts, plural Hefte)

  1. (literary, historical, specialist or regional, widely obsolete) haft; handle (of a weapon or certain tools)
Usage notes
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  • In large parts of Germany, this word is unknown even to well educated native speakers. Even the common expression das Heft in der Hand haben/halten (to be in charge, literally to hold the haft in one's hand) is interpreted as a derivative of etymology 1.
Declension
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Further reading

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Hunsrik

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Heft n (plural Hefte or Hefter, diminutive Heftche)

  1. notebook

Further reading

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Luxembourgish

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): [hæft]

Noun

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Heft ? (plural Hefter)

  1. notebook

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German hefte, from Old High German hefti, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją (handle, grip). Compare German Heft, Dutch heft, English haft.

Noun

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Heft n

  1. hilt

Plautdietsch

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Etymology

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From German Heft.

Noun

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Heft n (plural Hefta)

  1. notebook