different between hee vs hewe

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

Etymology

From Middle English hewe, from Old English h?wa (“member of a family”), from Proto-Germanic *h?wô (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). More at hind.

Noun

hewe (plural hewes)

1. (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.

Anagrams

• whee

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?wa, from Proto-Germanic *h?wô.

Alternative forms

• heue, hiue, hywe, heowe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiu?(?)/

  Rhymes: -iu?(?)

Noun

hewe (plural hewes or hewen)

1. servant, hireling
2. rascal, villein

Descendants

• English: hewe

References

• “heue, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?ew, from Proto-Germanic *hiwj?.

Alternative forms

• hew, heu, hu?e, hiwe, hwe, hue, hu, hyw, heow, hou, heou, howe, heowe, heouwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiu?/

  Rhymes: -iu?

Noun

hewe (plural hewes or hewen)

1. hue (tone, color)
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.

     Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

2. brightness, clarity (of a color)
3. paint, dye
4. complexion, appearance, look
5. expression, demeanour

Descendants

• English: hue
• Scots: hew, hu, hue

References

• “heu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German heben, Dutch heffen, English heave.

Verb

hewe

1. to hold
2. to lift