heah

heah (not comparable)

1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of here, representing African-American Vernacular English.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston , Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 46:

     ‘Yeah, uh store right heah in town wid everything in it you needs.’

heah (not comparable)

1. (US, historical, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of here, representing African-American Vernacular English.

• theah
• wheah

• hēh
• hēa – adverb

From Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Cognate with Old Frisian hāh, Old Saxon hōh, Old High German hōh, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs).

• IPA^(key): /xæ͜ɑːx/, [hæ͜ɑːx]

hēah (comparative hīerra, superlative hīehst)

1. high, tall
2. exalted, important
3. proud
4. deep
5. right (as opposed to left)
6. (in compounds) main, principal, arch-

   hēahfæder ― patriarch

   hēahenġel ― arch-angel

   hēahcleofa ― main chamber

7. (in compounds) denotes intensification, completion or perfection

   hēahfæst ― permanent, immutable

• dēop (“deep”)
• niþerlīċ (“low”)

• hēalīċe
• hēahstede
• hēahweġ

• Middle English: heigh
  • English: high
    • Sranan Tongo: hei
    • → German: high
  • Scots: heich
  • Yola: heigh, heighe, heegh, hia, hie
• Scots: he-, hey-