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heen.

away

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adv/ɦeːn/

  1. away

    De baron gaf den koetsier een wenk en het rijtuig rolde heen.

  2. to, towards

    postpositional
    Waar ga ik heen?

  3. gone, outside the boundaries of the norms

    slang
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch henen (“away from here, hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē. Cognate with German hin, English hence.

noun/ɦeːn/

  1. sea clubrush (Bolboschoenus maritimus)

    neuter · no-diminutive · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Derived from Proto-Germanic *hainō (“grindstone”), similar to Low German heenk, Old Norse hein. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin cos (“grindstone”), Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “pinecone”), Middle Irish cath (“sharp-minded”).

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