heben

From Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj,

heben (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Ebony.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 2:

     And thou moſt dreaded impe of higheſt Ioue, / Faire Venus ſonne, that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight ſo cunningly didſt rove, / That glorious fire it kindled in his heart, / Lay now thy deadly Heben bow apart, / And with thy mother milde come to my ayde: […]

• behen

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 of fliegen etc. (Compare Dutch heffen, which was also shifted, though to a different ablaut class.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːbən/, [ˈheːbm̩]

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heben (class 6 strong, third-person singular present hebt, past tense hob or (archaic) hub, past participle gehoben, past subjunctive höbe or (archaic) hübe, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to lift; to raise
2. (transitive) to heave; to hoist
3. (reflexive) to rise; to lift

• haben
• Hebel

• “heben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “heben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “heben” in Duden online
• “heben” in OpenThesaurus.de

• IPA^(key): /ˈxe.ben/, [ˈhe.ben]

heben m (Early Northumbrian)

1. alternative form of heofon

Strong a-stem: