hean
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hiːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English hene, from Old English hēan (“lowly, despised, poor, mean, bare, abject”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniz (“low, lowly”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to degrade, humiliate”).
Cognate with German höhn (“jeering, demeaning, bad”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 (hauns, “contemptible, base, humble”), Dutch hoon (“scorn, insult”), Latvian kauns (“shame, disgrace, dishonour”), Ancient Greek καυνός (kaunós, “bad”).
Adjective
[edit]hean (comparative more hean, superlative most hean)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English henen, from Old English hīenan (“to fell, prostrate, overcome, weaken, crush, afflict, injure, oppress, abase, humble, insult, accuse, condemn”), from Proto-West Germanic *haunijan, from Proto-Germanic *haunijaną (“to humiliate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to degrade, humiliate”).
Cognate with North Frisian huynjen (“to wound, abuse, hurt”), German höhnen (“to mock, jeer, scoff”) Swedish hån (“heckle, mocking”).
Verb
[edit]hean (third-person singular simple present heans, present participle heaning, simple past and past participle heaned)
Anagrams
[edit]Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *hauniz, whence also the Old High German noun hōna.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hēan
- low, mean, abject, humble
- poor, miserable
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan
wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon
traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,
- since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
- humiliated; despicable
Declension
[edit]Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | hēan | hēan | hēan |
Accusative | hēanne | hēane | hēan |
Genitive | hēanes | hēanre | hēanes |
Dative | hēanum | hēanre | hēanum |
Instrumental | hēane | hēanre | hēane |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | hēane | hēana, hēane | hēan |
Accusative | hēane | hēana, hēane | hēan |
Genitive | hēanra | hēanra | hēanra |
Dative | hēanum | hēanum | hēanum |
Instrumental | hēanum | hēanum | hēanum |
Descendants
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