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heth
or cheth
[ het, hes; Sephardic Hebrew khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew khes ]
noun
- the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- the sound represented by this letter.
heth
/ hɛt; xɛt /
noun
- the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (×—), transliterated as h and pronounced as a pharyngeal fricative
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heth1
First recorded in 1895–1900, heth is from the Hebrew word ḥe³Ù³ó literally, enclosure
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heth1
from Hebrew
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Heather, heth′ėr, n. the Scotch name for the native species of the Linn�an genus Erica, called in the north of England Ling, esp.
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Eversley was a democratic parish of "heth croppers," and there were few gentry within its borders.
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Oh, heth, I'm not so sure of that.
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I steals the heth, and I steals the binds, and I steals the handles: and yet I can't afoord to sell 'em under twopence.'
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It heth ane handsome church, with many ancient monuments and inscriptions on the old, interments of the Earles of this place.
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