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 (he³).

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /hɛ˧/

hea (not comparable)

1. (Hong Kong, colloquial, of people) slack; without or with little care or effort
2. (Hong Kong, colloquial) undemanding; with little workload

   Antonym: chur

• HAE, hae

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

hea (Cantonese)

1. to kill time; to hang around

   返屋企hea下先。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   faan¹ uk¹ kei² he³ haa⁵ sin¹. [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]  ―  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. to place things casually; to disperse (with an outward motion)

   hea被 [Cantonese]  ―  he³ pei⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   啲嘢唔好hea晒喺度。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   di¹ je⁵ m⁴ hou² he³ saai³ hai² dou⁶. [Jyutping]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 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 [1]

     naam⁴ tung⁴ hok⁶ gin³ go³ go³ dou¹ m⁴ sip³ seot¹ saam¹, zi⁶ gei² mai¹ jau⁶ he³ saai³ ceot¹ lei⁴ 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]

hea (Cantonese)

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

• → Hong Kong English: hea

hea (Cantonese)

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

• pea

• 呢hea

• 劉鎮發 (2014 February 17) “「hea」源自新會話”, in Apple Daily‎^[2] (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2014-03-02
• 馮睎乾 (2015 February 13) “Hea的正寫就是Hea”, in Apple Daily‎^[3] (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2015-02-13

• 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!

Declension of hea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hea	head
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hea
genitive			heade
partitive		head	häid heasid
illative		heasse	headesse häisse
inessive		heas	heades häis
elative		heast	headest häist
allative		heale	headele häile
adessive		heal	headel häil
ablative		healt	headelt häilt
translative		heaks	headeks häiks
terminative		heani	headeni
essive		heana	headena
abessive		heata	headeta
comitative		heaga	headega

• hüva

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.a/, [ˈhɛ.jə]

hea

1. to call

hea

1. h-prothesized form of ea

hea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヘア

hea

1. grieve

• IPA^(key): /xæ͜ɑː/, [hæ͜ɑː]

hēa

1. inflection of hēah:
   1. strong accusative feminine singular
   2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
   4. weak nominative masculine/feminine/neuter singular
   5. weak accusative neuter singular

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

• he, hey, hay

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

• IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Homophones: ha, hi, heigh, hye

hea (third-person singular, masculine, accusative case him, reflexive himzil, possessive his)

1. 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.

• his
• hea's
• hea'de

• 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