heg

From Middle Dutch hegge, from Old Dutch *hegga, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō,, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyo-, *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”).

Related to English hedge, German Hecke; also Latin cohum, Welsh cae.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛx/

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• Hyphenation: heg
• Rhymes: -ɛx

heg f (plural heggen, diminutive hegje n)

1. hedge, hedgerow

• haag

• heggenmus
• heg noch steg weten

• haag

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heg

1. singular imperative of hegen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hegen

Back-formation from heged. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: heg
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

heg (plural hegek)

1. (medicine) scab (an incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing)

   Synonym: var

2. (literary) scar (a permanent mark on the skin caused by the healing of a wound)

   Synonyms: forradás, sebhely

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	heg	hegek
accusative	heget	hegeket
dative	hegnek	hegeknek
instrumental	heggel	hegekkel
causal-final	hegért	hegekért
translative	heggé	hegekké
terminative	hegig	hegekig
essive-formal	hegként	hegekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hegben	hegekben
superessive	hegen	hegeken
adessive	hegnél	hegeknél
illative	hegbe	hegekbe
sublative	hegre	hegekre
allative	heghez	hegekhez
elative	hegből	hegekből
delative	hegről	hegekről
ablative	hegtől	hegektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	hegé	hegeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	hegéi	hegekéi

Possessive forms of heg
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hegem	hegeim
2nd person sing.	heged	hegeid
3rd person sing.	hege	hegei
1st person plural	hegünk	hegeink
2nd person plural	hegetek	hegeitek
3rd person plural	hegük	hegeik

• heged → beheged

• heg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

heg

1. Alternative form of hegge

hēġ n

1. Alternative form of hīeġ