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heita

See also: Heita and heitä

English

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heita

  1. (South Africa, colloquial) Greeting, hello; hi
    • 2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51:
      I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."
    • 1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61:
      ‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.
    • 1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20:
      ‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).

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  1. ^ Dictionary of South African English

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Faroese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse heita (“to heat”).

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heita

  1. to heat
Conjugation
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Conjugation of heita (group v-30-2)
infinitive heita
supine heitað/
heitt
participle heitandi heitaður/
heittur
present past
first singular heiti heitaði/
heitti
second singular heitar/
heitir 		heitaði/
heitti
third singular heitar/
heitir 		heitaði/
heitti
plural heita heitaðu/
heittu
imperative
singular heita/
heit!
plural heitið!
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse heita (“to call”).

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heita

  1. (kvæði) to beg, to ask
  2. (biblical) to promise
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heita

  1. (archaic, poetic) to call
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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

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heita (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hét, third-person plural past indicative hétu, supine heitið)

  1. to be called, to be named
    • Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)
      Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.
      I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
    Ég heiti Baldur.
    My name is Baldur.
  2. to promise
    Ég heiti þér því.
    I promise it to you.

Conjugation

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heita — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að heiti
supine
(sagnbót) 		heitið
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		heitandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég heiti við heitum present
(nútíð) 		ég heiti við heitum
þú heitir þið heitið þú heitir þið heitið
hann heitir þeir heita hann heiti þeir heiti
past
(þátíð) 		ég hét við hétum past
(þátíð) 		ég héti við hétum
þú hést þið hétuð þú hétir þið hétuð
hann hét þeir hétu hann héti þeir hétu

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  • (to be called, to be named): nefnast
  • (to promise): lofa

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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  • heite (e and split infinitives)

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse heita, from Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

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heita (present tense heiter, past tense heitte or het, past participle heitt, present participle heitande, imperative heit)

  1. (intransitive) to be called or named; have a name
    Kva heiter du?
    What is your name?

Etymology 2

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Related to or derived from the adjective heit (“hot, warm”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haitaz.

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heita (present tense heitar, past tense heita, past participle heita, passive infinitive heitast, present participle heitande, imperative heita/heit)

  1. (transitive) to heat

Etymology 3

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Partly from Old Norse heita (“to promise”) and partly from Old Norse hóta (“to threaten”).

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heita (present tense heitar, past tense heita, past participle heita, passive infinitive heitast, present participle heitande, imperative heita/heit)

  1. (transitive) to threaten, scare

Etymology 4

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From heit and heita.

Noun

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heita f (definite singular heita, indefinite plural heiter or heitor, definite plural heitene or heitone)

  1. (pre-2012 or dialectal) alternative form of heite (“heat”)

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *haitaną, from Proto-Indo-European *key(w)-, *kyew- (“to set in motion”). Cognate with Old English hātan, Old Saxon hētan, Old High German heizzan, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan).

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heita (singular past indicative hét, plural past indicative hétu, past participle heitinn)

  1. (transitive) to call
  2. (intransitive) to be called, to be named
    Ek heiti Ásgerðr. ― My name is Ásgerðr.
  3. (transitive, with dative) to promise

Conjugation

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In the sense of being called something, bearing a particular name, the inflectional endings in the present tense singular indicative, follow a weak inflection pattern, and not the strong one—thus the example sentence above is not ek *heit Ásgerðr. This is a fossil of the old Germanic passive, which was productive in Gothic and presumably also Proto-Norse.

Conjugation of heita — active (strong class 7)
infinitive heita
present participle heitandi
past participle heitinn
indicative present past
1st-person singular heiti hét
2nd-person singular heitir hézt
3rd-person singular heitir hét
1st-person plural heitum hétum
2nd-person plural heitið hétuð
3rd-person plural heita hétu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular heita héta
2nd-person singular heitir hétir
3rd-person singular heiti héti
1st-person plural heitim hétim
2nd-person plural heitið hétið
3rd-person plural heiti héti
imperative present
2nd-person singular heit
1st-person plural heitum
2nd-person plural heitið
Conjugation of heita — mediopassive (strong class 7)
infinitive heitask
present participle heitandisk
past participle heitizk
indicative present past
1st-person singular heitumk hétumk
2nd-person singular heitisk hézk
3rd-person singular heitisk hézk
1st-person plural heitumsk hétumsk
2nd-person plural heitizk hétuzk
3rd-person plural heitask hétusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular heitumk hétumk
2nd-person singular heitisk hétisk
3rd-person singular heitisk hétisk
1st-person plural heitimsk hétimsk
2nd-person plural heitizk hétizk
3rd-person plural heitisk hétisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular heizk
1st-person plural heitumsk
2nd-person plural heitizk

For all other senses of the word, all inflectional endings are as expected.

Conjugation of heita — active (strong class 7)
infinitive heita
present participle heitandi
past participle heitinn
indicative present past
1st-person singular heit hét
2nd-person singular heitr hézt
3rd-person singular heitr hét
1st-person plural heitum hétum
2nd-person plural heitið hétuð
3rd-person plural heita hétu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular heita héta
2nd-person singular heitir hétir
3rd-person singular heiti héti
1st-person plural heitim hétim
2nd-person plural heitið hétið
3rd-person plural heiti héti
imperative present
2nd-person singular heit
1st-person plural heitum
2nd-person plural heitið
Conjugation of heita — mediopassive (strong class 7)
infinitive heitask
present participle heitandisk
past participle heitizk
indicative present past
1st-person singular heitumk hétumk
2nd-person singular heizk hézk
3rd-person singular heizk hézk
1st-person plural heitumsk hétumsk
2nd-person plural heitizk hétuzk
3rd-person plural heitask hétusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular heitumk hétumk
2nd-person singular heitisk hétisk
3rd-person singular heitisk hétisk
1st-person plural heitimsk hétimsk
2nd-person plural heitizk hétizk
3rd-person plural heitisk hétisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular heizk
1st-person plural heitumsk
2nd-person plural heitizk

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: heita
  • Faroese: eita, heita
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: heita
  • Old Swedish: hēta
  • Old Danish: hetæ
  • Old Gutnish: haita

References

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  • “heita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Pronoun

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heita

  1. abessive of hö
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