hé

hé

1. horn (on an animal's head)

• hee

• IPA^(key): /ɦeː/

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hé

1. hey

   Hé, kijk uit waar je loopt!

   Hey, watch where you're going!

• eille, heille (Quebec)

• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /e/

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:)

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /e/

hé m (plural hés)

1. (Belgium) a wooded slope

• eh

Rhymes: -e

hé alternate of ?

1. to help out, to relieve (someone)

   E tə̂ he mò pə̀. ― He/she helps nobody.

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

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• Rhymes: -eː
• Rhymes: -heː

An onomatopoeia.^[1]

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.

From Hebrew הא.

hé (plural hék)

1. he (the fifth Hebrew letter)

• 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

• éh

• IPA^(key):

hé!

1. hey!

   Synonym: hóigh

hé

1. h-prothesized form of é

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “hé”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “hé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Louisiana Creole phrasebook

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(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".”)

• IPA^(key): /he/
• Rhymes: -e

hé

1. hey, hi

   Synonym: éy

• he — nonstandard

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hé (he², Zhuyin ㄏㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 何
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4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 各
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hé m (plural hés)

1. (Jersey) garden gate

hé

1. Alternative spelling of é

• hésom (emphatic)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: hé

hé

1. together with

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

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

hé

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

• (without accent) he

hé

1. second-person singular present indicative of avere

hé

1. here (closer to the speaker than the listener, but not in the immediate space)

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hé • (戲, 𢹍)

1. (of eyes and lips) to slightly open