heon

Hungarian

Etymology

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

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

Adverb

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

csupán, csak, kizárólag

References

↑ ^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

Etymology 1

Pronoun

heon

Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 2

Verb

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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