heth

• chet, cheth, ḥet, ẖet, hheth, het, khet, kheth

• Rhymes: -ɛθ

heth (plural heths)

1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

• heth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Hebrew חֵי״ת (ḥēṯ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: hèth

heth m (invariable)

1. heth, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤇
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ח

• heeth, heþ
• heath, hethe, hetthe, heþe, heyth, hoth (Late Middle English)

Inherited from Old English hǣþ, from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ̝ːθ/
• Rhymes: -ɛːθ

heth (plural hethes)

1. A heath; uncultivated land overgrown with scrubby vegetation.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.

     Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
     Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Shrubbery that grows in heaths, especially heather (plants of the family Ericaceae).
3. (rare) A field or clearing.

• hethen

• English: heath
• ⇒ Middle Scots: haithehene

• “hēth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “heath, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.