hea

See also: hea' and HEA

English

Etymology 1

Variation of here.

Noun

hea (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

Adjective

hea (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

Adverb

hea (not comparable)

1. (chiefly Hawaii or African-American Vernacular) Here.

   Da truck is ova hea.

   The truck is over here.

   • 2007 April 1, Chris McKinney, The Tattoo: A Novel, Soho Press, →ISBN:

     "She no stay home, I coming right back ova hea, and I goin' fuckin' kill you. So you tink about what you telling me. Cause if I come back, I no kea if you get fuckin' fifty pigs ova hea. I fuckin' kill 'um all." She smiled.

   • 2012 April 24, Ni'chelle Genovese, Baby Momma, Urban Books, →ISBN:

     “Roll back ova hea'an...” No, this nigga didn't. “Nigga? Is that Shiree? Are you for real fuckin' laid up right now?” I yelled into the phone. I ain' even need an answer. The nigga started stutterin' and fumblin' the phone. I hung.

   • 2014 05, Sharlene Tate, Beyond the Shackles of Double Tree, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

     “Well, I likes it too, Peaches,” Mose said, grinning from ear to ear, “but if callin ya Pearl can gits ya ova hea when I calls ya den I's gon be callin ya Pearl. Come on ovah hea, Pearly gal, les see if it woks.

Alternative forms

• hea'

Etymology 2

From Cantonese hea (he³).

Pronunciation

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /hɛ˧/

Adjective

hea (not comparable)

1. (Hong Kong, colloquial, of people) slack; without or with little care or effort
2. (Hong Kong, colloquial) undemanding; with little workload

   Antonym: chur

Anagrams

• HAE, hae

Chinese

FWOTD – 18 March 2016

Alternative forms

• 迆, 迤
• 呬
• 嬉
• 憩
• 愒
• 歇
• 戲／戏
• 𠺪
• hae

Etymology

Lau (2014) suggests influence from a northern Sunwui dialect, where /pʰ/ in pea is reduced to /h/.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Notes: Ultimately from Hakka 迆

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): he³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: he³
    • Yale: he
    • Cantonese Pinyin: he³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛː³³/

Verb

hea (Cantonese)

1. to kill time; to hang around
   • 1997, “遊戲”, in 黃貫中 (lyrics), 請將手放開, performed by BEYOND [Beyond]:

     跟班friend hea到天光 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  gan¹ baan¹ fen¹ he³ dou³ tin¹ gwong¹ [Jyutping]  ―  hanging with friends until dawn

2. to do something without putting much care or effort into it
3. to go through the motions; to give a carefree response; to beat around the bush; to treat someone lightly
4. (dated or uncommon) to place things casually; to disperse (with an outward motion)

   hea被 [Cantonese]  ―  he⁶ pei² [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 男同學見個個都唔攝恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟囉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     男同学见个个都唔摄恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟啰。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, 【神同步】你哋受埋我玩啦喵！, TV Most [1]

     naam⁴ tung⁴ hok⁶ gin³ go³ go³ dou¹ m⁴ sip³ seot¹ saam¹, zi⁶ gei² mai¹ jau⁶ he³ saai³ ceot¹ lei⁴ lo¹. [Jyutping]

     Male students finds that everyone is not tucking in their shirts, and so one follows suit and casually leaves his shirt to be on the outside [and not tucked in]

Adjective

hea (Cantonese)

1. slack; casual; perfunctory; without or with little care or effort
2. slack; undemanding; with little workload

Descendants

• Hong Kong English: hea

Adverb

hea (Cantonese)

1. without or with little care or effort; perfunctorily; indifferently; negligently

Related terms

• pea

See also

• 呢hea (le² he³)

References

• 劉鎮發 (2014 February 17) “「hea」源自新會話 ["hea" comes from Sunwui dialect]”, in Apple Daily‎^[2] (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2014-03-02
• 馮睎乾 (2015 February 13) “Hea的正寫就是Hea [The correct way of writing 'hea' is just 'hea']”, in Apple Daily‎^[3] (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2015-02-13

Estonian

Alternative forms

• hää (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hüvä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɑ̯/, [ˈ(h)eɑ̯]
• Hyphenation: hea
• Rhymes: -eɑ̯

Adjective

hea (genitive hea, partitive head, comparative parem, superlative kõige parem or parim)

1. good

   Head ööd! ― Good night!

   Head päeva! ― Have a good day!

   Häid jõule! ― Merry Christmas!

Declension

Declension of hea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hea	head
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hea
genitive			heade
partitive		head	häid heasid
illative		heasse	headesse häisse
inessive		heas	heades häis
elative		heast	headest häist
allative		heale	headele häile
adessive		heal	headel häil
ablative		healt	headelt häilt
translative		heaks	headeks häiks
terminative		heani	headeni
essive		heana	headena
abessive		heata	headeta
comitative		heaga	headega

Synonyms

• hüva

Derived terms

• head aega
• head isu
• head ööd
• häid jõule

 

References

• “hea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• “hea”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhea/, [ˈhɛə]

Verb

hea

1. to call

Irish

Pronoun

hea

1. h-prothesized form of ea

Japanese

Romanization

hea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヘア

Maori

Verb

hea

1. grieve

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hā, hē, from Proto-Germanic *hawją.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪə̯/

Noun

hea n (plural heaën, diminutive heake)

1. hay

Further reading

• “hea (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Alternative forms

• hey, hay, he

Etymology

From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Homophones: ha, hi, heigh, hye

Pronoun

hea (third-person singular, masculine, accusative case him, reflexive himzil, possessive his)

1. he
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 45:

     Geeth hea aught?

     Doth he get any or anything?

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:

     Quo hea.

     Saith he.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     Hea marreet dear Phielim to his sweet Jauane.

     He married dear Phelim to his sweet Joan.

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:

     Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless.

     Nine chickens has he left fatherless.

Derived terms

• his
• hea's
• hea'de

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45