heon

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From the he variant of the obsolete or dialectal hiu (“emptiness”) + -n.^[1] Compare csupán (“only”), pusztán (“barely”).^[1] First attested c. 1195.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈhɛon]
Hyphenation: he‧on
Rhymes: -on

Adverb edit

heon (not comparable)

(obsolete) only, solely
- c. 1195, Benkő Lóránd, Ewithu, transl., Halotti beszéd és könyörgés:
  Eſ mend paradiſumben uolov gimilcíctul munda nekí elnie. Heon tilutoa wt ig fa gimilcetvl.
  And he told him to live on all the fruits of paradise. He only forbade him from the fruit of one tree.
- c. 1195, Benkő Lóránd, Ewithu, transl., Halotti beszéd és könyörgés:
  Num heon muga nec. ge mend w foianec halalut evec.
  They ate death not only for him, but for all his kind.

Synonyms edit

csupán, csak, kizárólag

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 heon in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronoun edit

heon

Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

heon

Alternative form of hewen (“to make a loud noise”)

[zaicz-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 heon in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

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