heben.
to lift; to raise
Meaning & usage
to lift; to raise
to heave; to hoist
to rise; to lift
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German heben, heven (rarer heffen), from Old High German heffen, heven, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan. Compare Dutch heffen, English heave, Danish hæve. Doublet of hieven and kapieren. The -b- is regular in the past tense and participle. In Middle High German the paradigm was regularised by spreading -b- to the present tense; reinforced in East Central German by the local shift -v- → -b- (as in Oben for Ofen). The fricative is preserved in related Hefe (“yeast”). The original past forms hub, gehaben were retained until Early Modern German. The verb was then shifted to the class 2 past forms of fliegen etc. (Compare Dutch heffen and Middle English heven, which were also shifted, though to classes 7 and 4/5 respectively.)
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