different between hear vs heaf

English

Alternative forms

• heare (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English heren, from Old English h?eran (“to hear”), from Proto-Germanic *hauzijan? (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??h?owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared”), from *h?e?- (“sharp”) + *h?ows- (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heere (“to hear”), West Frisian hearre (“to hear”), Dutch horen (“to hear”), German hören (“to hear”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høre (“to hear”), Norwegian Nynorsk høyra (“to hear”), Icelandic heyra (“to hear”), Ancient Greek ????? (akoú?, “I hear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /hj??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: here, hir

Verb

hear (third-person singular simple present hears, present participle hearing, simple past and past participle heard)

1. (intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. [from 10th c.]

2. (transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. [from 10th c.]
3. (transitive) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. [from 10th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John X:

     Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?
4. (transitive) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). [from 10th c.]

5. (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of. [from 10th c.]
6. (with from) To be contacted by.
7. (transitive) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. [from 12th c.]

8. (transitive, informal) To sympathize with; to understand the feelings or opinion of.

Usage notes

• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• audible
• deaf
• listen

References

• hear in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• hear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ahre, Hare, Hera, RHAe, Rahe, Rhea, hare, hera, rhea

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German herre, from Old High German h?rro, h?riro, comparative form of h?r (“gray-haired, noble, venerable”). Cognate with German Herr; see there for more.

Noun

hear m

1. (Luserna) God, Lord

References

• “hear” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h???r/

Etymology 1

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Noun

hear c (plural hearen, diminutive hearke)

1. lord
2. (Christianity) the Lord, God

3. nobleman
4. gentleman

Derived terms

• leavehearsbistke
• mynhear

Further reading

• “hear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian here, from Proto-West Germanic *hari.

Noun

hear c (plural hearen)

1. army

2. crowd

Further reading

• “hear (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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