heth

See also: Heth and heth.

English

Alternative forms

• chet, cheth, ḥet, ẖet, hheth, het, khet, kheth

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛθ

Noun

heth (plural heths)

1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

Catalan: het (ca) f Finnish: het (fi) French: hèt (fr) m, cheth (fr) m, het (fr) m, heth (fr) m German: Chet n, Cheth n Hebrew: חי״ת \ חֵית f (khet) Yiddish: חית m or f (khes)

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

• heth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

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heth

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Etymology

From Hebrew חֵי״ת (ḥēṯ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: hèth

Noun

heth m (invariable)

1. heth, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤇
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ח

Middle English

Alternative forms

• heeth, heþ
• heath, hethe, hetthe, heþe, heyth, hoth (Late Middle English)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hǣþ, from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ̝ːθ/
• Rhymes: -ɛːθ

Noun

heth (plural hethes)

1. A heath; uncultivated land overgrown with scrubby vegetation.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.

     Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
     Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Shrubbery that grows in heaths, especially heather (plants of the family Ericaceae).
3. (rare) A field or clearing.

Related terms

• hethen

Descendants

• English: heath
• ⇒ Middle Scots: haithehene

References

• “hēth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “heath, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.