hé

Dakota

Noun

hé

1. horn (on an animal's head)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦeː/

• Audio

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Interjection

hé

1. hey

   Hé, kijk uit waar je loopt!

   Hey, watch where you're going!

French

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• eille, heille (Quebec)

Pronunciation

• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /e/

Interjection

hé

1. (familiar) Used to call someone; hey
2. (colloquial) Used to express surprise; eh
3. (Canada) Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener confirm or agree with what has been said.

   Tu es Canadien, hé? ― You're Canadian, eh?

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /e/

Noun

hé m (plural hés)

1. (Belgium) a wooded slope

Anagrams

• eh

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eː
• Rhymes: -heː

Etymology 1

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection

hé

1. hey (grabbing the attention of someone, possibly with the intent of warning)
   • 1907, Endre Ady, Dózsa György unokája (The Grandson of György Dózsa), poem, lines 1–4, trans. by Sir Maurice Bowra:

     Dózsa György unokája vagyok én, ¶ Népért síró, bús, bocskoros nemes. ¶ Hé, nagyurak, jó lesz tán szóbaállni ¶ Kaszás népemmel, mert a Nyár heves.

     I, the grandson of György Dózsa, ¶ a sad peasant-noble, must cry out for my people’s lot. ¶ Ah, you masters, great landlords, perhaps you would speak ¶ to my scythe-bearing people—for the summer is hot.

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Hebrew הא.

Noun

hé (plural hék)

1. he (the fifth Hebrew letter)

Declension

References

Further reading

• hé in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

• éh

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Interjection

hé!

1. hey!

   Synonym: hóigh

Pronoun

hé

1. h-prothesized form of é

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “hé” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “hé” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps inherited from Louisiana French "hé" or borrowed from English "hey".”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he/
• Rhymes: -e

Interjection

hé

1. hey, hi

   Synonym: éy

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• he — nonstandard

Pronunciation

• (file)

Romanization

hé (he², Zhuyin ㄏㄜˊ)

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

hé m (plural hés)

1. (Jersey) garden gate

Old Irish

Pronoun

hé

1. Alternative spelling of é

Related terms

• hésom (emphatic)

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: hé

Postposition

hé

1. together with

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: hé
• Homophones: he, e

Verb

hé

1. (obsolete, rare) second-person singular imperative of haber

See also

• (without accent) he

Tarantino

Verb

hé

1. second-person singular present indicative of avere

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Verb

hé • (戲, 𢹍)

1. (of eyes and lips) to slightly open

Derived terms