Alternative forms

• eille, heille (Quebec)

Pronunciation

• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /e/Category:French 1-syllable words#HECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#HE

Interjection

héCategory:French lemmas#HECategory:French interjections#HECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#HECategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ

1. (familiarCategory:French familiar terms#HE) Used to call someone; hey
2. (colloquialCategory:French colloquialisms#HE) Used to express surprise; eh
3. (CanadaCategory:Canadian French#HE) 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?Category:French terms with usage examples#HE

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)Category:Requests for quotations in French#HE

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)}Category:French terms with aspirated h IPA^(key): /e/Category:French 1-syllable words#HECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#HE

Noun

hé m (plural hés)Category:French lemmas#HECategory:French nouns#HECategory:French countable nouns#HECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#HECategory:French masculine nouns#HECategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ

1. (BelgiumCategory:Belgian French#HE) a wooded slope

Interjection

héCategory:Hungarian lemmas#HECategory:Hungarian interjections#HECategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#HECategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#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.

     Category:Hungarian terms with quotations#HE

Noun

hé (plural hék)Category:Hungarian lemmas#HECategory:Hungarian nouns#HECategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#HECategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ

1. he (the fifth Hebrew letter)

Alternative forms

• he (Dzubukuá)

Verb

hé (4th declension, 3rd person singular sihé)Category:Kariri lemmas#HÉCategory:Kariri verbs#HÉCategory:Kariri entries with incorrect language header#HÉCategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ (KipeáCategory:Kipeá#HÉ)

1. (hapax legomenonCategory:Kariri hapax legomena#HÉ) to be painted
   • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri [Catechism of the Christian doctrine in the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (overall work in Kariri, Portuguese, Latin, and Spanish), Lisbon, page 84:

     Hé icanghikié dó mé bó ſubétékié nhewó idióhó idzené ſipá […]

     To paint the sick person with genipap so the devil does not recognize them so as not to kill them […]

     (literally, “To be painted the one who is not well with genipap so the devil does not recognize them so as not to be killed […] ”)

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HÉ

2. to be anointed
   • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri [Catechism of the Christian doctrine in the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (overall work in Kariri, Portuguese, Latin, and Spanish), Lisbon, page 134:

     Vdje uró, ſihé dinhanateri no Waré do nhẽdí Tupã?

     What is extreme unction?

     (literally, “What is this, to be anointed the one who is dying, by the priest with the oil of God?”)

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HÉ

   • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri [Catechism of the Christian doctrine in the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (overall work in Kariri, Portuguese, Latin, and Spanish), Lisbon, pages 134–135:

     Sodé ſihé ipó dicanghikierí no Waré do nhendí Tupã, ſihébæ ibenhé dehẽ, inãbŷ dehẽ, ſeibŷ dehẽ[,] ſamŷſã dehẽ, ibŷ dehẽ, icrunhedí nodehé?

     Why does the priest anoint the sick person’s eyes, their ears, their nostrils, their lips, their hands, their feet, and their loins with blessed oil?

     (literally, “Why are anointed the hands of the one who is not well, by the priest with the oil of God, are anointed their ears as well, their nostrils as well, their lips as well, their hands as well, their feet as well, their loins as well?”)

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HÉ

3. (hapax legomenonCategory:Kariri hapax legomena#HÉ) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:Category:Kariri terms with uncertain meaning#HÉ
   1. to be stained
      • 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri [Catechism of the Christian doctrine in the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (overall work in Kariri, Portuguese, Latin, and Spanish), Lisbon, page 2:

        […] dó dikyé ená hihẽbupídé nóſumarã^{[sic – meaning nó ſumarã ]} anhí […]

        […] do not allow the enemies of the soul to stain us, not even a little […]

        (literally, “ […] let it not be allowed by you we be stained a little by the enemies of the soul […] ”)

        Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HÉ

Alternative forms

• he (Dzubukuá)

Adjective

héCategory:Kariri lemmas#HÉCategory:Kariri adjectives#HÉCategory:Kariri entries with incorrect language header#HÉCategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ (KipeáCategory:Kipeá#HÉ)

1. (hapax legomenonCategory:Kariri hapax legomena#HÉ) red
   • [1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri [Art of grammar of the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (quotation in Portuguese; overall work in Portuguese and Latin), Lisbon, page 55:

     Os adject. aos quaes ſe ajuntaõ as ditas particulas ſaõ os ſeguintes […] Hè, vermelho […]

     The adjectives to which the said particles are added are the following […] Hè, red […] ]

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HE

Noun

hé (1st declension, 3rd person singular ihé)Category:Kariri lemmas#HÉCategory:Kariri nouns#HÉCategory:Kariri entries with incorrect language header#HÉCategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ (KipeáCategory:Kipeá#HÉ)

1. (hapax legomenonCategory:Kariri hapax legomena#HÉ) tripe
   • [1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri [Art of grammar of the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (quotation in Portuguese; overall work in Portuguese and Latin), Lisbon, pages 18–19:

     A eſta primeira declinaçaõ pertencem […] os nomes ſeguintes […] Hè, tripas.

     To this first declension belong […] the following nouns […] Hè, tripe.]

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HE

Interjection

héCategory:Kariri lemmas#HÉCategory:Kariri interjections#HÉCategory:Kariri entries with incorrect language header#HÉCategory:Pages with entries#HÉCategory:Pages with 16 entries#HÉ (KipeáCategory:Kipeá#HÉ)

1. (hapax legomenonCategory:Kariri hapax legomena#HÉ) ah!
   • [1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, edited by Miguel Deslandes, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri [Art of grammar of the Brazilian language of the Kiriri nation] (quotation in Portuguese and Latin; overall work in Portuguese and Latin), Lisbon, page 117:

     Hè: Ay. Lat. Ah, Heu, ingemiſcentis.

     Hè: Ah. Lat. Ah, Heu, of one lamenting.]

     Category:Kariri terms with quotations#HE

References

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

See also

• (without accent) he

Derived terms

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