# hee
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

hee
* (onomatopoeia) An expression of laughter.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251:"Good evening, Kristen," said I; "what are you telling that creates such fun?" "Hee, hee, hee!" screamed the youngsters, with great glee depicted in their faces; "Kristen has told us about the smith and the devil, and then about the lad who got him into the nut, and now he says he's going to tell us about Peter Sannum, whose horse the fairies stopped on the Asmyr hill."
* (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
** 1995, Tim Kelly, Dr. Jekyll.. Please Don't Hyde!, page 14:Hyde: (Leaps from desk. LADY BUGG runs behind the sofa. HYDE follows.) Hee, hee, hee! LADY BUGG: Help! Murder! Police!
** 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!
** 2003, Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, page 14:Listen! Fire Thunder sprang from the back of the dying pony to the back of a passing buffalo! Hee-hee! He landed facing the tail! He grabbed that tail and twisted it and made his buffalo go wherever he wanted to go. Hee-hee!

##### Related terms

* haw
* hee haw
* hee-haw
* hee-hee
* hee hee hee
* tee hee
* tee-hee
* tee hee hee
* te-hee

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

hee (personal pronoun)
* Obsolete spelling of he. (sometimes emphatic).
** 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:He ended, and the Son gave signal high To the bright Minister that watchd, hee blew His Trumpet

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈheː/ [ˈheː]
* Hyphenation: hee

### Verb

heé (causative haysiisé)
* (transitive) put, place
* (transitive, + l-case) attribute to

#### Conjugation
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “hee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Cahuilla
### Adverb

hée
* 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: /heː/

### Adverb

hee
* (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) here; in this place

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

hee
* Alternative spelling of hé

## Manx
### Verb

hee
* second/third-person singular/plural future independent of faik
    Hee eh adsyn cloie 'syn aer. ― He will see them playing in the air.
    Fark as hee oo! ― Wait and (you will) see!

## Middle English
### Pronoun

hee
* Alternative form of he (“he”)

## North Frisian
### Verb

hee
* third-person singular present of haa

## Plautdietsch
### Pronoun

hee
* he
** 2003, De Bibel, Mose I (Genesis) 13:4:
    Doa haud hee ea eenen Aultoa jemoakt. Un doa roopt Abram däm Harn aun.There he first built an altar. And there Abraham invoked the Lord.

### 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

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hee n (plural heeia)
* hay

#### Derived terms

* heeaon

## Yanomam
### Noun

hee (unclassified holonym; singulative hee a, dual hee kipë, plural hee pë)
* bat

### References

* Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure‎, volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 115

## Zyphe
### Noun

hee
* mango

### References

* Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎