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Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Back-formation from hekottaa (“to guffaw”).
Interjection
heko
- har har, hardy har har (false laughter with a sarcastic connotation)
Usage notes
Used only in reduplicated form, heko heko.
Etymology 2
Clipping of helikopteri.
Noun
heko
- (military slang) helicopter, helo
Declension
Anagrams
Guaraní
Noun
heko
- third-person possessed form of teko
Swahili
Pronunciation
Interjection
heko
- congratulations! (expressing praise and approval)
- Synonyms: hongera, pongezi
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien, either:
- 蝦膏／虾膏 (hê ko, literally “shrimp paste”) according to Chan-Yap (1980)
- 蝦膎／虾膎 (hê-kê, “shrimp paste”, literally “pickled/salted shrimp”) according to Manuel (1948)
Pronunciation
Noun
heko (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃᜓ)
- thick, dark sauce from the residue of salted shrimp paste
See also
Further reading
- “heko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 22