hevy
Middle English
/ˈhɛːviː/
adj
Definitions
- Having great weight; heavy.
- Having great force or intensity.
- Having great importance or meaning.
- Difficult to bear or accomplish; burdensome.
- Slow in movement.
- Lacking in vitality due to factors such as fatigue, age, disease or conscience.
- Burdened with woe or sorrow; sad, troubled.
- Angry or vexed usually formed with l.
- (of a topic) Grave, serious.
- (of reputation) ill, infamous, bad
- (of scent) Having an offensive odor.
- (of sound) Low in pitch.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hefiġ inherited from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (weighty, heavy, hefty) affix from Middle English heven (lift, heave).
Origin
Middle English
heven
Gloss
lift, heave
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- heave English
- heavily English
- heaviness English
- heavisome English
- heavy English
- heavyhearted English
- heavyish English
- heavyset English
- heavyweight English
- hyperheavy English
- nonheavy English
- overheavy English
- superheavy English
- ultraheavy English
- unheavy English
- heavy German
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- *habīgaz Proto-Germanic
- hebban Old English
- hefig Old English
- hefiglice Old English
- hefignes Old English
- hefiġ Old English
- hefiġlīċe Old English
- hefiġnes Old English
- heofon Old English
- heft Middle English
- heven Middle English
- hevyliche Middle English
- hevynesse Middle English
- hevysum Middle English
- hevyte Middle English
- *habīg gmw-pro
- *heƀig Old Saxon
- heiven Scots
- hevi Tok Pisin
- hevipela Tok Pisin
- hebi Sranan Tongo