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, slang, of people) slack; without or with little care or effort
2. (Hong Kong, slang) 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.

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, 黃貫中 (lyrics), “遊戲”, in 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)

   • 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 lai⁴ 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]

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

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

References

• “「hea」源自新會話 ["hea" comes from Sunwui dialect]”, in Apple Daily‎^[2] (in Chinese), 2014-02-17, archived from the original on 2014-03-02
• 馮睎乾 (2015-02-13), “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

	singular (ainsus)	plural (mitmus)
nominative (nimetav)	hea	head
genitive (omastav)	hea	heade
partitive (osastav)	head	häid
illative (sisseütlev)	heasse	headesse
inessive (seesütlev)	heas	heades
elative (seestütlev)	heast	headest
allative (alaleütlev)	heale	headele
adessive (alalütlev)	heal	headel
ablative (alaltütlev)	healt	headelt
translative (saav)	heaks	headeks
terminative (rajav)	heani	headeni
essive (olev)	heana	headena
abessive (ilmaütlev)	heata	headeta
comitative (kaasaütlev)	heaga	headega

Synonyms

• hüva

Derived terms

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

 

References

• hea in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• hea in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN

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.

Pronoun

hea

1. he

Derived terms

• hays
• hea's
• hea'de

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 45