different between hean vs heaf

English

Alternative forms

• hene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English hene, from Old English h?an (“lowly, despised, poor, mean, bare, abject”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniz (“low, lowly”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to degrade, humiliate”). Cognate with German höhn (“jeering, demeaning, bad”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hauns, “contemptible, base, humble”), Dutch hoon (“scorn, insult”), Latvian kauns (“shame, disgrace, dishonour”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kaunós, “bad”).

Adjective

hean (comparative more hean, superlative most hean)

1. (obsolete) Mean; abject; poor; humble; lowly.

Derived terms

• heanling

Etymology 2

From Middle English henen, from Old English h?enan (“to fell, prostrate, overcome, weaken, crush, afflict, injure, oppress, abase, humble, insult, accuse, condemn”), from Proto-West Germanic *haunijan, from Proto-Germanic *haunijan? (“to humiliate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to degrade, humiliate”).

Cognate with North Frisian huynjen (“to wound, abuse, hurt”), German höhnen (“to mock, jeer, scoff”) Swedish hån (“heckle, mocking”).

Verb

hean (third-person singular simple present heans, present participle heaning, simple past and past participle heaned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with contumely; insult; humiliate; debase; lower.

Anagrams

• Haen, Hane

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hauniz, whence also the Old High German noun h?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xæ???n/, [hæ???n]

Adjective

h?an

1. low, mean, abject, humble
2. poor, miserable
3. humiliated; despicable

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hene
  • English: hean

English

Noun

heaf

1. (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted; a heft.

Verb

heaf (third-person singular simple present heafs, present participle heafing, simple past and past participle heafed)

1. (Northern England) (of farm animals, especially a flock of sheep) To become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.

Anagrams

• HFEA, hafe