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Middle English
Adjective
heve
- Alternative form of hevy
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hefa.
Verb
heve (imperative hev, present tense hever, passive heves, simple past heva or hevet or hevde, past participle heva or hevet or hevd, present participle hevende)
- to raise or elevate
- to rise
- la deigen heve seg - let the dough rise
- heve penger - to withdraw money
Derived terms
References
- “heve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Various influences, including German heben, Danish hæve and Old Norse hefja (cf. Norwegian Nynorsk hevja). All of these derive from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift heave”), whence also English heave, which was borrowed into Norwegian as the doublet hive. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, and the root *keh₂p- (“to seize”).
Alternative forms
Verb
heve (present tense hevar or hever, past tense heva or hevde, past participle heva or hevd or hevt, present participle hevande, imperative hev)
- to make or put higher, lift, increase, strengthen
- to throw, fling
- to charge, get paid
- to annul, end, break
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
heve
- Nonstandard form of har.
References
- “heve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
heve
- inflection of hevar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
West Frisian
Etymology
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Verb
heve
- to lift, to raise
- Synonym: heffe
Inflection
Further reading
- “heevje”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English heven, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.
Pronunciation
Verb
heve
- to heave
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:Heve a dishen an trenshoorès awye, Shaneen;- Heave the dishes and the trenchers away, little John;
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 46