heten

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeː.tə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: he‧ten
• Rhymes: -eːtən
• Homophones: Heeten, heetten

From Middle Dutch hêten, from Old Dutch hētan, originally from the passive voice of Proto-West Germanic *haitan, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

heten

1. (copulative) To be named; to have as name; to be called.

   Deze kat heet Felix.

   This cat is called Felix.

2. (copulative) to be (a translation or synonym of); to be called.

   Hoe heet dat in het Frans?

   What is that in French?

3. (transitive, dated) To name, to call (to provide with a name, to define a name as).
   • 1900, Frederik van Eeden, Van de koele meren des Doods, W. Versluys (publ., 1st ed.), page 7.

     Haar naam heet ik Hedwig Marga de Fontayne.

     I call her name Hedwig Marga de Fontayne.

   Synonym: noemen

4. (copulative, dated) to be claimed; to be asserted.

   Het heet dat hij ziek is.

   It's being claimed that he is sick.

5. (copulative, dated) to mean; to have as meaning

• In a lot of dialects and colloquially the verb noemen (“call, give a name”) is used instead of heten. This is generally considered incorrect[1] and is not usually tolerated in written Dutch.

• Afrikaans: heet
• Negerhollands: hiet

From heet.

heten

1. (transitive) To heat, make warmer
2. (intransitive) To heat up, become warmer
3. (figuratively, transitive) To stir, arouse emotions etc.

• verhitten, opwarmen, verwarmen

• heetketel

From the het- stem of hét (“seven”) +‎ -en (adverb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛtɛn]
• Hyphenation: he‧ten
• Rhymes: -ɛn

heten (not comparable)

1. the seven of us/you/them

• heten vannak, mint a gonoszok (“there are seven of them like the devils/demons”)

• héten (“on [a] week”, the superessive of the noun hét, or rarely that of the numeral hét)

• see III. 1. in (1): hét 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

From Old Dutch hētan, from Proto-West Germanic *haitan.

hêten

1. to proclaim, to declare
2. to call (use the voice)
3. to call, to name
4. to be called, to have as name
5. to command, to order

• heiten (Limburgish)

• Dutch: heten
  • Afrikaans: heet
  • Negerhollands: hiet
• Limburgish: heite

• “heten (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “heeten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page heeten

Inherited from Old English hǣtan, from Proto-West Germanic *haitijan, from Proto-Germanic *haitijaną; equivalent to hete (“heat”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• hete, hetyn
• heaten (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛːtən/

heten (third-person singular simple present heteth, present participle hetynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative hette, past participle het)

1. To heat; to make warm or hot.
2. To increase in heat; to become hot.
3. To cause a hot sensation or heating.
4. To make or become willing or fervent.
5. (rare) To light aflame.

• English: heat
• Scots: heat, haet, het
  • ⇒ Scots: het

• “hēten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English hǣtan, plural of hǣte, variant of hǣtu; equivalent to hete +‎ -en (plural suffix).

heten

1. (Early Middle English) plural of hete (“heat”)

heten

1. Alternative form of hetien

heten m

1. definite singular of hete

heten m

1. definite singular of hete