hea

Variation of here.

hea (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

hea (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

hea (not comparable)

1. (chiefly Hawaii or African-American Vernacular) Here.

   Da truck is ova hea.

   The truck is over here.

   • 2007 April 1, Chris McKinney, The Tattoo: A Novel, Soho Press, →ISBN:

     "She no stay home, I coming right back ova hea, and I goin' fuckin' kill you. So you tink about what you telling me. Cause if I come back, I no kea if you get fuckin' fifty pigs ova hea. I fuckin' kill 'um all." She smiled.

   • 2012 April 24, Ni'chelle Genovese, Baby Momma, Urban Books, →ISBN:

     “Roll back ova hea'an...” No, this nigga didn't. “Nigga? Is that Shiree? Are you for real fuckin' laid up right now?” I yelled into the phone. I ain' even need an answer. The nigga started stutterin' and fumblin' the phone. I hung.

   • 2014 05, Sharlene Tate, Beyond the Shackles of Double Tree, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

     “Well, I likes it too, Peaches,” Mose said, grinning from ear to ear, “but if callin ya Pearl can gits ya ova hea when I calls ya den I's gon be callin ya Pearl. Come on ovah hea, Pearly gal, les see if it woks.

• hea'

From Cantonese hea.

hea (not comparable)

1. (Hong Kong, slang, of people) idle; lazy
2. (Hong Kong, slang) undemanding; with little workload

   Antonym: chur

• HAE, hae

• 迆, 迤
• 呬
• 嬉
• 憩
• 愒
• 歇
• 戲
• 𠺪
• hae

Lau (2014) suggests influence from a northern Sunwui dialect, where /pʰ/ in pea is reduced to /h/. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

hea (Cantonese)

1. to kill time; to hang around
   • 1997, 黃貫中 (lyrics), “遊戲”, in 請將手放開, performed by BEYOND [Beyond]:

     跟班friend hea到天光 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  gan¹ baan¹ fen¹ he³ dou³ tin¹ gwong¹ [Jyutping]  ―  hanging with friends until dawn

2. to do something without putting much care or effort into it
3. to go through the motions; to give a carefree response; to beat around the bush; to treat someone lightly
4. (dated or uncommon) to place things casually; to disperse (with an outward motion)

   • 男同學見個個都唔攝恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟囉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     男同学见个个都唔摄恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟啰。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, 【神同步】你哋受埋我玩啦喵！, TV Most

     naam⁴ tung⁴ hok⁶ gin³ go³ go³ dou¹ m⁴ sip³ seot¹ saam¹, zi⁶ gei² mai¹ jau⁶ he³ saai³ ceot¹ lai⁴ lo¹. [Jyutping]

     Male students finds that everyone is not tucking in their shirts, and so one follows suit and casually leaves his shirt to be on the outside [and not tucked in]

5. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   hea被 [Cantonese]  ―  he⁶ pei² [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

hea (Cantonese)

1. slack; casual; perfunctory; without or with little care or effort
2. slack; undemanding; with little workload

hea (Cantonese)

1. without or with little care or effort; perfunctorily; indifferently; negligently

• pea

• “「hea」源自新會話 ["hea" comes from Sunwui dialect]”, in Apple Daily‎ (in Chinese), 2014-02-17, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2022-10-19

• 馮睎乾 (2015-02-13), “Hea的正寫就是Hea [The correct way of writing 'hea' is just 'hea']”, in Apple Daily‎ (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2015-02-13, retrieved 2015-08-05

• hää (dialectal)

From Proto-Finnic *hüvä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɑ̯/, [ˈ(h)eɑ̯]
• Hyphenation: hea
• Rhymes: -eɑ̯

hea (genitive hea, partitive head, comparative parem, superlative kõige parem or parim)

1. good

   Head ööd! ― Good night!

   Head päeva! ― Have a good day!

   Häid jõule! ― Merry Christmas!

• hüva

• hea in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• hea in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN

hea

1. h-prothesized form of ea

hea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヘア

hea

1. grieve

From Old Frisian hā, hē, from Proto-Germanic *hawją.

• IPA^(key): /hɪə̯/

hea n (plural heaën, diminutive heake)

1. hay

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

• hey, hay, he

From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ.

hea

1. he

• hays
• hea's
• hea'de

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 45