"heien" meaning in Dutch

See heien in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈɦɛi̯.ə(n)/ Audio: Nl-heien.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛi̯ən Etymology: From Middle Dutch heien, of uncertain ultimate origin; perhaps related to Latin caedo (“I cut”), where the syncope of -d- would have taken place very early. If so, related to Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”). Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|heien}} Middle Dutch heien, {{cog|la|caedo|t=I cut}} Latin caedo (“I cut”), {{cog|gem-pro|*hittijaną|t=to hit, make contact with}} Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”) Head templates: {{nl-verb}} heien Inflection templates: {{nl-conj-wk|hei}} Forms: weak [table-tags], heien [infinitive], heien [gerund, neuter], hei [first-person, present, singular], heide [first-person, past, singular], heit [present, second-person, singular], hei [present, second-person, singular], heide [past, second-person, singular], heit [formal, present, second-person, singular], heide [formal, past, second-person, singular], heit [Flanders, colloquial, present, second-person, singular], heit [archaic, formal, majestic, present, second-person, singular], heide [Flanders, colloquial, past, second-person, singular], heide [archaic, formal, majestic, past, second-person, singular], heit [present, singular, third-person], heide [past, singular, third-person], heien [plural, present], heiden [past, plural], heie [archaic, present, singular, subjunctive], heide [archaic, past, singular, subjunctive], heien [archaic, plural, present, subjunctive], heiden [archaic, past, plural, subjunctive], hei [imperative, present, singular], heit [archaic, imperative, plural, present], heiend [participle, present], geheid [participle, past]
  1. (transitive, intransitive) to drive (a pile, plank or wall) into the ground Tags: intransitive, transitive Derived forms: heipaal, inheien, onderheien
    Sense id: en-heien-nl-verb-h~YuATPx Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "lang_code": "af",
      "word": "hei"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Papiamentu",
      "lang_code": "pap",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "hei"
    },
    {
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "lang_code": "fy",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "heie"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heien"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heien",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caedo",
        "t": "I cut"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin caedo (“I cut”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*hittijaną",
        "t": "to hit, make contact with"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch heien, of uncertain ultimate origin; perhaps related to Latin caedo (“I cut”), where the syncope of -d- would have taken place very early. If so, related to Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nl-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "Flanders",
        "colloquial",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "formal",
        "majestic",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "Flanders",
        "colloquial",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "formal",
        "majestic",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiend",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "geheid",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heien",
      "name": "nl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "hei",
        "en"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hei"
      },
      "name": "nl-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "heipaal"
        },
        {
          "word": "inheien"
        },
        {
          "word": "onderheien"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to drive (a pile, plank or wall) into the ground"
      ],
      "id": "en-heien-nl-verb-h~YuATPx",
      "links": [
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) to drive (a pile, plank or wall) into the ground"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɦɛi̯.ə(n)/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Nl-heien.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Nl-heien.ogg/Nl-heien.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Nl-heien.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Heijen"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛi̯ən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "heien"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "heipaal"
    },
    {
      "word": "inheien"
    },
    {
      "word": "onderheien"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "lang_code": "af",
      "word": "hei"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Papiamentu",
      "lang_code": "pap",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "hei"
    },
    {
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "lang_code": "fy",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "heie"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "dum",
        "3": "heien"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch heien",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caedo",
        "t": "I cut"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin caedo (“I cut”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*hittijaną",
        "t": "to hit, make contact with"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch heien, of uncertain ultimate origin; perhaps related to Latin caedo (“I cut”), where the syncope of -d- would have taken place very early. If so, related to Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to hit, make contact with”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nl-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "Flanders",
        "colloquial",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "formal",
        "majestic",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "Flanders",
        "colloquial",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "formal",
        "majestic",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heide",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heien",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hei",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heiend",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "geheid",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heien",
      "name": "nl-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "hei",
        "en"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hei"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Dutch",
  "lang_code": "nl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Dutch basic verbs",
        "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Dutch intransitive verbs",
        "Dutch lemmas",
        "Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
        "Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
        "Dutch terms with homophones",
        "Dutch transitive verbs",
        "Dutch verbs",
        "Dutch weak verbs",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Dutch/ɛi̯ən",
        "Rhymes:Dutch/ɛi̯ən/2 syllables"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to drive (a pile, plank or wall) into the ground"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) to drive (a pile, plank or wall) into the ground"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɦɛi̯.ə(n)/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Nl-heien.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Nl-heien.ogg/Nl-heien.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Nl-heien.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Heijen"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛi̯ən"
    }
  ],
  "word": "heien"
}

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