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Borrowed from West Frisian heit.

heit m (plural heiten, diminutive heitje n)

1. (informal) dad, father

   Coordinate term: mem

   Mijn heit houdt maar niet op over zijn Friese afkomst. ― My dad won't stop going on about his Frisian heritage.

• Mostly encountered as code-switching by West Frisian speakers speaking Dutch, or by Dutch speakers of Frisian descent (who do not otherwise speak West Frisian).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

heit

1. inflection of heien:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

From Middle High German hiute, from Old High German hiutu. Compare German heute.

heit

1. (Erzgebirgisch) today

• Heitzetooch

Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60

From Middle High German hiute, from Old High German hiutu. Compare German heute, Dutch heden.

• IPA^(key): /haɪ̯t/

heit

1. today

   Heit is die Familje kumplett.

   Today the family is complete.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “heit”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

• IPA^(key): /heiːt/
• Rhymes: -eiːt

From Old Norse heit, from Proto-Germanic *gahaitą.

heit n (genitive singular heits, nominative plural heit)

1. promise, vow

   Synonym: loforð

• strengja heit

• heita (“to be called; to promise”)

heit

1. inflection of heitur:
   1. feminine singular nominative strong positive degree
   2. neuter plural nominative strong positive degree
   3. neuter plural accusative strong positive degree

heit

1. imperative of heita

From Proto-West Germanic *haudu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“manner”).

heit m

1. manner

• Wright, Joseph (1906), An Old High German Primer‎^[2], second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *gahaitą, *haitą. Cognate with Old English ġehāt and bēot (from earlier bihāt), Old High German giheiz, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄 (gahait).

heit n

1. promise, vow

• strengja heit

• heita

• Icelandic: heit
• Faroese: heit

From Middle High German hiute, from Old High German hiutu (“today”). Compare German heute, Dutch heden.

heit

1. today

From Old Frisian atta.

A former term of endearment which has widely displaced faar, just as mem (“mother”) has displaced moer. Cognate with North Frisian aatj (“father”), also related to Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta). The h- would appear to be prothetic; compare the variant deite, which is further comparable to East Frisian Low German Tatte, English dad, etc.

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /hai̯t/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /hɛi̯t/

heit c (plural heiten, diminutive heitsje)

1. father, dad

   Synonym: (in compounds) faar

   Coordinate term: mem

• → Dutch: heit

• “heit”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011