# hea
## Translingual
### Symbol

hea
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Northern Qiandong Miao.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Northern Qiandong Miao terms

## English
### Etymology 1

Variation of here.

#### Noun

hea (uncountable)
* Alternative spelling of hea'

#### Adjective

hea (not comparable)
* Alternative spelling of hea'

#### Adverb

hea (not comparable)
* (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.

##### Alternative forms

* hea'

### Etymology 2

From Cantonese hea (he$^3$).

#### Pronunciation

* (Hong Kong) IPA: /hɛ˧/

#### Adjective

hea (not comparable)
* (Hong Kong, colloquial, of people) slack; without or with little care or effort
* (Hong Kong, colloquial) undemanding; with little workload
    Antonym: chur

### Anagrams

* HAE, hae

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* hae
* 呬
* 𠺪
* 嬉
* 愒
* 憩
* 戲 / 戏
* 歇
* 迆, 迤

### Etymology

Lau (2014) suggests influence from a northern Sunwui dialect, where /pʰ/ in pea is reduced to /h/.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): he$^3$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: he$^3$
*** Yale: he
*** Cantonese Pinyin: he$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hé$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɛː³³/

### Verb

hea (Cantonese)
* to kill time; to hang around
       faan$^1$ uk$^1$ kei$^2$ he$^3$ haa$^5$ sin$^1$. [Jyutping]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1997, “遊戲”, in 黃貫中 (lyrics), 請將手放開, performed by BEYOND [Beyond]:
    跟班friend hea到天光 [Literary Cantonese] ― gan$^1$ baan$^1$ fen$^1$ he$^3$ dou$^3$ tin$^1$ gwong$^1$ [Jyutping] ― hanging with friends until dawn
* to do something without putting much care or effort into it
* to go through the motions; to give a carefree response; to beat around the bush; to treat someone lightly
* to place things casually; to disperse (with an outward motion)
    hea被 [Cantonese] ― he$^3$ pei$^5$ [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
       di$^1$ je$^5$ m$^4$ hou$^2$ he$^3$ saai$^3$ hai$^2$ dou$^6$. [Jyutping]
       (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 2016, 【神同步】你哋受埋我玩啦喵！, TV Most
    naam$^4$ tung$^4$ hok$^6$ gin$^3$ go$^3$ go$^3$ dou$^1$ m$^4$ sip$^3$ seot$^1$ saam$^1$, zi$^6$ gei$^2$ mai$^1$ jau$^6$ he$^3$ saai$^3$ ceot$^1$ lei$^4$ lo$^1$. [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]

### Adjective

hea (Cantonese)
* slack; casual; perfunctory; without or with little care or effort
* slack; undemanding; with little workload

#### Descendants

* → Hong Kong English: hea

### Adverb

hea (Cantonese)
* without or with little care or effort; perfunctorily; indifferently; negligently

### Related terms

* pea

### See also

* 呢hea

### References

* 劉鎮發 (2014 February 17) “「hea」源自新會話 ["hea" comes from Sunwui dialect]”, in Apple Daily‎ (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2014-03-02
* 馮睎乾 (2015 February 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

## Estonian
### Alternative forms

* hää (dialectal)

### Etymology

From earlier hää, contracted from Proto-Finnic *hüvä.

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

hea (genitive hea, partitive head, comparative parem, superlative kõige parem or parim)
* good
    Head ööd! ― Good night!
    Head päeva! ― Have a good day!
    Häid jõule! ― Merry Christmas!

#### Synonyms

* hüva

#### Derived terms

* head aega
* head isu
* head ööd
* häid jõule

### References

* “hea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* “hea”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhe.a/, [ˈhɛ.jə]

### Verb

hea
* to call

## Irish
### Pronoun

hea
* h-prothesized form of ea

## Japanese
### Romanization

hea
* Rōmaji transcription of ヘア

## Maori
### Verb

hea
* grieve

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xæ͜ɑː/, [hæ͜ɑː]

### Adjective

hēa
* inflection of hēah:
** strong accusative feminine singular
** strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
** strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
** weak nominative masculine/feminine/neuter singular
** weak accusative neuter singular

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɪə̯/

### Noun

hea n (plural heaën, diminutive heake)
* hay

#### Further reading

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

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* he, hey, hay

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiː/, /heː/
* Homophones: hi, hye, heigh

### Pronoun

hea (third-person singular, masculine, accusative case him, reflexive himzil, possessive his)
* he
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 45:Geeth hea aught?Doth he get any or anything?
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:Quo hea.Saith he.
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:Hea marreet dear Phielim to his sweet Jauane.He married dear Phelim to his sweet Joan.
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless.Nine chickens has he left fatherless.

#### Derived terms

* his
* hea's
* hea'de

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 45