Heck

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English

 Heck cattle on Wikipedia
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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German Heck, the surname.

Proper noun

Heck

  1. 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

Proper noun

Heck

  1. A surname, possibly from German.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Heck

  1. A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).
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German

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /hɛk/
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Noun

Heck n (strong, genitive Hecks or Heckes, plural Hecks or (less common) Hecke)

  1. stern (of a ship)
  2. tail (of an aeroplane)
  3. back (of a car)

Usage notes

  • The more common plural is Hecks.

Declension

Declension of Heck
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Heck die Hecks, Hecke2
genitive eines des Hecks, Heckes der Hecks, Hecke2
dative einem dem Heck, Hecke1 den Hecks, Hecken2
accusative ein das Heck die Hecks, Hecke2

1Now rare, see notes.
2Less common.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “stern, tail”): Bug m (“bow”)
  • (antonym(s) of “back of car”): Front f (“front”)

Related terms

See also

Proper noun

Heck m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hecks or (with an article) Heck, feminine genitive Heck, plural Hecks)

  1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Heck
singular plural
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

  • “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

Etymology

From Middle High German hegge, from Old High German heggia, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. Cognate with German Hecke, Dutch heg, English hedge.

Pronunciation

Noun

Heck f (plural Hecken)

  1. bush, hedge

Synonyms

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