hei

See also: héi, hēi, and héí

English

Noun

hei (plural heis)

Alternative spelling of he (Hebrew letter)

Anagrams

hie

Alemannic German

Noun

hei

(Formazza) home

References

Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Cornish

Noun

hei

Aspirate mutation of kei.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: -ɛi̯
IPA^(key): /ɦɛi̯/
Homophone: hij

Noun

hei f (plural heides or heiden, diminutive heitje n)

Alternative form of heide

Finnish

Pronunciation

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Hyphenation: hei
Rhymes: -ei
IPA^(key): /ˈhei̯/

Interjection

hei

hi
bye (often repeated twice for goodbye: "hei hei")
hey

Anagrams

hie

Galician

Verb

hei

first-person singular present indicative of haber

German Low German

Alternative forms

(more common in the western dialects, though still found in Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian alongside hei) he

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛɪ̯/, /haɪ̯/

Pronoun

hei m (genitive sin, dative em, dative 2 jüm, accusative en)

(in some dialects, including, Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian, personal) Alternative form of he
(Low Prussian) Hei ös to lat.
He is too late.

Usage notes

Which dative is employed depends on dialect, not on function.
Some dialects might consider any of the inflected forms obsolete.

Japanese

Romanization

hei

Rōmaji transcription of へい

Latvian

Interjection

hei

hey

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German hia, alternative form of hiar, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r. Compare archaic German hie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɑɪ̯/
Rhymes: -ɑɪ

Adverb

hei

here, in this place

Mandarin

Romanization

hei (Zhuyin ˙ㄏㄟ)

Nonstandard spelling of hēi.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.