different between hee vs hef

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

hee

1. (onomatopoeia) An expression of laughter.
2. (rare) Said as a limb is swung in attack.
   • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a):

     Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!

Related terms

• haw
• hee-hee

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hee (personal pronoun)

1. Obsolete spelling of he (sometimes emphatic).
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book XI

     He ended, and the Son gave signal high
     To the bright Minister that watchd, hee blew
     His Trumpet

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?/

Verb

hée

1. (transitive) to put, place

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Cahuilla

Adverb

hée

1. yes

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• hie (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German hia, alternative form of hiar. Compare archaic German hie, Luxembourgish hei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?/

Adverb

hee

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) here; in this place

Dutch

Pronunciation

Interjection

hee

1. Alternative spelling of hé.

Manx

Verb

hee

1. second/third-person singular/plural future independent of faik

Middle English

Pronoun

hee

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Plautdietsch

Pronoun

hee

1. he

See also

• am (“him”)
• sikj (“himself”)
• ekj (“I”)
• dü (“you, thou”)
• wie (“we”)
• jie (“you”)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

hee n (plural heeia)

1. hay

Derived terms

• heeaon

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

hef (plural hefs)

1. (abbreviation) hefeweizen

Anagrams

• Fe/H, feh

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch heft, from Middle Dutch hefte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f/

Noun

hef (plural hefte)

1. handle

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

hef

1. first-person singular present indicative of heffen
2. imperative of heffen

Middle English

Verb

hef

1. past tense of heave

Old Norse

Verb

hef

1. inflection of hefja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active